exudates and Tachypnea

A congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) is a rare cystic anomaly that may occur during development of the fetal airways. The vast majority of CPAMs are detected in neonates; as such, it is unusual for diagnosis to occur in adulthood. We report a 21-year-old male patient who presented to the emergency department of the Hospital Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2015 with chest pain, breathlessness and tachypnoea. Based on an initial chest X-ray, the patient was misdiagnosed with pneumothorax and underwent urgent chest tube insertion; however, his condition deteriorated over the course of the next three days. Further imaging was suggestive of infected

Topics: Blister; Chest Pain; Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital; Delayed Diagnosis; Emergency Service, Hospital; Humans; Malaysia; Male; Radiography; Tachypnea; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Young Adult