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case_images: Chest computed tomography on admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions. There are ground-glass opacities in the peripheral lesion just below the pleura of the right middle and lower lobes.
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case_images: CT showed multiple GGOs just below the peripheral pleura, without rib fractures and/or traumatic pulmonary pseudocysts (Fig. 1). Computed tomography also revealed fractures of the pelvis, 11th thoracic vertebra, and right femur and calcaneus.
case_images: Clinical course of symptoms and treatment during intensive care unit admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions. The patient had had a fever (>37.5 C) for 15 days. The repetitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and follow-up computed tomography (CT) findings released the quarantine at day 5 after intensive care unit admission.
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case_images: Although his fever continued even after hospitalization, the results of real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19 carried out on days 2 and 3 were negative (Fig. 2).
case_images: Chest computed tomography on day 5 of admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions, showing the reduction in the small ground-glass opacities.
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case_images: Moreover, CT carried out on day 5 showed less GGOs and localization of the pulmonary contusions compared with initial CT (Fig. 3).