What are the findings? What conditions should you suspect given the history and this portable radiograph.?
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Portable radiograph: Left pleural fluid collection and indistinct aortic border.
Axial non-contrast CT (left): Massive left pleural fluid collection with hyperdense component that corresponds in density to clotted blood.
Axial post contrast CT (right): Aortic intimal separation with small true lumen and large intramural (false) lumen.