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Message in a bottle. The use of chest radiography for diagnosis of pericardial effusion

INTRODUCTION: The diagnosis of pericardial effusion may be elusive, and only diagnosed with echocardiography. CASE REPORTS: Here we report the cases of two patients who presented to the emergency centre (EC) with dyspnoea, and their chest X-rays (CXR) revealed the “water bottle sign”, which is the t...

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Autores principales: Foley, James, Tong, Lai Pun, Ramphul, Navin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2016.01.004