A 12-year-old boy was admitted to hospital for abdominal pain, vomiting and fever. On physical examination he had râles on the lower right hemithorax without any respiratory complaints. Chest X-ray revealed a condensation in the right lower chest. Abdominal findings were secondary to lobar
A 16-month-old boy developed a cutaneous swelling at the base of the right hemithorax with fever. The chest film showed evidence of a very slight pleural effusion and the xerography disclosed subcutaneous emphysema opposite the swelling. Three weeks earlier, the child had been found in a field with