A 45-Year-Old Man With Acute Chest Pain, Fever, and Dyspnea After Tooth Extraction

Abstract

A 45-year-old Japanese man underwent wisdom tooth extraction. He developed right chest pain 2 days later, followed by continuous fever with dyspnea 2 weeks after the tooth extraction, and then came to our hospital. He complained of cough and purulent sputum.mL, with 87.8% neutrophils, hemoglobin of 12.1 g/dL, platelets of 511 Â 10 3 /mL, and C-reactive protein of