Question 23

23.  Your patient is a 88 year old male that comes in with shortness of breath progressively worse over the last couple weeks.  His chest X Ray reveals a moderate side pleural effusion.  Which of the following physical findings does not correlate with the x ray findings?

A.   Dullness to percussion in right lower lobe

B.  Diminished breath sounds right lower lobe

C.  Absent sound on the right side

D.  Rales in the right lower lobe