Delayed complications to foreign body aspiration include bronchial stenosis, recurrent pneumonia, pneumothorax, recurrent hemoptysis, and chronic lung disease.102 Evaluation In a case of suspected acute asphyxiation of a foreign body, imaging should not delay intervention, but imaging is indicated in ...
When pneumonia is suspected, diagnosis is confirmed by imaging evaluation, with chest X-ray (CXR) being the most used tool. CT is more sensitive but usually performed in un- clear cases or when complications are suspected [16]. Imaging findings are variable: in CAP, CT images classi- cally...
University Hospital, Asan Medical Center, Chungnam National University Hospital, and Yeungnam University Hospital, the KAIST team has improved the screening accuracy by providing more data to the algorithm for examining lung diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumothorax, and Covid-19 using chest X-ray ...
chest tubes were inserted in the right side for nine patients, in the left side for nine patients, and bilaterally in 9 patients (Table 6). The location of X-ray findings was distributed equally in pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema patients, but pneumothorax patients had more tendency ...
A Case of Spontaneous Pneumothorax 21 Days After Diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia Ashraf Abushahin,John Degliuomini[...] DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.925787 Am J Case Rep 2020; 21:e925787 3810128447 22 Jul 2020: Case report ...
What Is the Diagnosis? A.Hemopneumothorax B.Hiatal hernia C.Diaphragmatic rupture D.Pulmonary contusion.
On admission the patient had a right-sided pneumothorax on chest X-ray (Figure 1). Unusual Malposition of a Chest Tube, Intrathoracic but Extrapleural We report a case of spontaneous PPC, pneumothorax, and subcutaneous emphysema in a nonventilated term infant. Neonatal Pneumopericardium in a Non...
The data gained from percussion, auscultation, and X-ray examination are important in the diagnosis of pneumosclerosis. Treatment consists of administration of agents that improve patency of the bronchi, antibiotics, sulfanilamides, and corticosteroid hormones; therapeutic exercises are also prescribed. ...
The principal methods of diagnosis for pulmonary tuberculosis are the tuberculin skin test (an intracutaneous injection of purified protein derivative tuberculin is performed, and the injection site examined for reactivity), sputum smear and culture, and the chest x-ray. Culture and biopsy are importa...
The first to describe pneumothorax was Itard, in 1803, and L?nnec is said to have been the first to have diagnosed it and to have fully described the physical findings upon which a diagnosis could be made. Prior to th...