Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray

Teaching Point: Thoracic postoperative complications are difficult to diagnose on supine chest X-rays, with pneumothoraxes accompanied by underlying atelectasis presenting as non-specific opacities due to the superposition of the two entities having opposed radiographic characteristics, with one cau...

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Autores principales: Saliba, Thomas, Boitisios, Grammatina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2023
Materias:
Images in Clinical Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10312250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37396966
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.3162
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description Teaching Point: Thoracic postoperative complications are difficult to diagnose on supine chest X-rays, with pneumothoraxes accompanied by underlying atelectasis presenting as non-specific opacities due to the superposition of the two entities having opposed radiographic characteristics, with one causing lucency and the other opacity.
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spelling pubmed-103122502023-07-01 Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray Saliba, Thomas Boitisios, Grammatina J Belg Soc Radiol Images in Clinical Radiology Teaching Point: Thoracic postoperative complications are difficult to diagnose on supine chest X-rays, with pneumothoraxes accompanied by underlying atelectasis presenting as non-specific opacities due to the superposition of the two entities having opposed radiographic characteristics, with one causing lucency and the other opacity. Ubiquity Press 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10312250/ /pubmed/37396966 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.3162 Text en Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray
title_full Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray
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title_full_unstemmed Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray
title_short Pneumothorax and Atelectasis Appearing as a Non-Specific Opacity on a Supine Infant’s Chest X-Ray
title_sort pneumothorax and atelectasis appearing as a non-specific opacity on a supine infant’s chest x-ray
topic Images in Clinical Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10312250/
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