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Concomitant presentation and resolution of a post-traumatic pneumothorax and pneumopericardium
W F Van Gelderen1, M al-Hindawi, C G Archibald
1Department of Radiology, Wanganui Base Hospital, New Zealand.
Australasian Radiology
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
The association of a right pneumothorax and a pneumopericardium due to non-penetrating trauma is exceedingly unusual. A patient with both complications presented 7 hours after a motorcycle accident. These were detected incidentally on a scout film for CT for lumbar fractures and both resolved entirely and simultaneously after chest tube insertion in the right pleural space.