Category: Visual Diagnosis
Posted: 10/22/2012 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Trauma patient (...yes, that's the only history you're given). Diagnosis?
Answer: Inverted left hemidiaphragm (or deep sulcus sign) secondary to a tension pneumothorax. There is also a superimposed hemothorax.
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