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Occult Traumatic Pneumothorax: Diagnostic Accuracy of Lung Ultrasonography in the Emergency Department


Twenty-five traumatic PTXs were detected in the 218 hemithoraxes (109 patients; 2 patients had a bilateral PTX) evaluated by spiral CT scan; of these, only 13 of 25 PTXs (52%) were revealed by chest Rx (sensitivity, 52%; specificity, 100%), while 23 of 25 PTXs (92%) were identified by lung US with one false-positive result (sensitivity, 92%; specificity, 99.4%). In 20 of 25 cases, there was agreement on the extension of the PTX between CT lung scan and lung US with a mean difference of 1.9 cm (range, 0 to 4.5 cm) in the localization of retroparietal air extension; chest Rx was not able to give quantitative results.


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CHEST 2008; 133:204 –211
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