Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Trauma

Young person with severe RTA:
CXR AP supine:
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Findings:
It is easy to notice rib fractures and ETT in place.
Did you notice difference in the lucency in the lung bases? Which lung base is more lucent? That may be the only sign of pneumothorax!

CT correlation:
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

very true ,clinicians rely more on air entry with stethoscope .lung margin is not very often seen in pneumothorax. They put the chest tube and drain large amount of blood despite not so obvious radiological signs