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Anatomical locations of air for rapid diagnosis of pneumothorax in blunt trauma patients

BACKGROUND: Bedside diagnostic ultrasound for traumatic pneumothorax is easy and reliable. However, the thoracic anatomical locations to be examined are debateable. We aimed to study the anatomical locations of blunt traumatic pneumothoraces as defined by chest CT scan to identify the areas that sho...

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Autores principales: Hefny, Ashraf F., Kunhivalappil, Fathima T., Paul, Manoj, Almansoori, Taleb M., Zoubeidi, Taoufik, Abu-Zidan, Fikri M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-019-0263-0