TY - JOUR T1 - A 75-year-old male with breathlessness and pleuritic chest pain JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 259 LP - 260 DO - 10.1183/18106838.0103.259 VL - 1 IS - 3 AU - S. Mukherjee Y1 - 2005/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/1/3/259.abstract N2 - A 75-year-old male was admitted with a 12 day history of breathlessness and pleuritic chest pain. He was hypoxic and needed respiratory support in the intensive care unit. A right pleural space collection was identified, which was subsequently drained. The patient had a dental abscess, which had been drained 2 days prior to admission. Subsequently, he developed a right submandibular swelling with erythema. ER -