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Bra padding mistaken for pneumonia on X-ray
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-03-19 08:49

A careless doctor told a woman she had pneumonia after an X-ray exam revealed a shadow that later turned out be just the padding in her bra.

The woman went to a doctor in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, after she caught a cold and started to cough. She also felt pain in her chest.

A doctor concluded she suffered from pneumonia after he saw the shadow in the lower part of her right lung.

After receiving a drip, however, she kept coughing acutely. Her boyfriend asked another doctor to give her another examination.

The second doctor saw the same ring shadow but realized it was not pneumonia. It turned out she just had a normal cold and the shadow was only the padding she added to the right side of the bra to make her breasts look even.

(Yangtze Evening News)