A 14-year-old Asian Indian female presented with cough with mucopurulent expectoration, low grade fever, dyspnoea, and anorexia which had lasted for 5 months. On auscultation of the left chest she had diminished breath sounds with coarse crepitations.

A chest radiograph (Figure 1C) and a multislice contrast spiral CT scan were performed (Figures 1A and 1B).