000 Trauma Blunt Chest Trauma

 

Blunt Chest Trauma
24 year old female CT of the chest following blunt chest trauma shows a combination of findings including a small right sided pneumothorax, right sided hematoma with embedded pneumatocele, and biapical ground glass changes. The left apical GGO and mid right lung field also contains acinar shadows There is a subpleural sparing in the left apex.
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net137733
Blunt Chest Trauma
24 year old female CT of the chest following blunt chest trauma. The magnified view of the left apex . The left apical GGO also contains acinar shadows
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net137735
Blunt Chest Trauma
24 year old female CT of the chest following blunt chest trauma shows a combination of findings including a small right sided pneumothorax (teal arrowheads), right sided hematoma with embedded pneumatocele,(maroon arrowhead) and biapical ground glass changes. The left apical GGO and right mid lung field also contains acinar shadows (pink circles) There is a subpleural sparing in the left apex (navy blue arrowheads)
Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net137733L

 

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Blunt Trauma (CT) AUR Cardiothoracic Imaging