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What Causes Persistent Cough With CXR Showing "blunt Costophrenic Angle"?

hi,i'm a medical student.i want to know the etioligy of persistant cough and CXR with this findings:
CXR of blunt right heart boarder+right costophrenic angle blunt+midline shift to right+elevated right hemidiaphragm.chest sono doesn't seen effusion.
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Mon, 26 Oct 2015
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It may be a thick effusion which is missed on ultrasonography...Or a Mass...A lateral view would help,in arriving at a diagnosis...
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What Causes Persistent Cough With CXR Showing "blunt Costophrenic Angle"?

It may be a thick effusion which is missed on ultrasonography...Or a Mass...A lateral view would help,in arriving at a diagnosis...