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case_images: Chest X-ray on admission showing a right-sided pneumothorax prior to insertion of the chest tube.
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case_images: On admission the patient had a right-sided pneumothorax on chest X-ray (Figure 1). His chest X-ray (Figure 1) showed significant right-sided pneumothorax with partial collapse of the right lung.
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case_images: Chest X-ray after insertion of the chest tube showing improvement in the right-sided pneumothorax with subcutaneous emphysema.
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case_images: Chest X-ray showing worsening of the pneumothorax despite presence of a chest tube.
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case_images: Chest CT axial cut magnified showing the location of the chest tube in relation to the chest wall and parietal pleura. White arrow: parietal pleural.
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case_images: The chest tube was noted to be intrathoracic but extrapleural with the parietal pleura shown as thin layer in some of the transverse cuts (Figure 4).
case_images: Chest CT scan sagittal cuts showing the chest tube location.
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case_images: Sagittal and coronal planes show the chest tube inside the chest cavity but in the extrapleural space adherent to the inner side of the right chest wall (Figure 5).
case_images: Chest X-ray after insertion of a new chest tube and resolution of the right-sided pneumothorax.
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case_images: A chest X-ray obtained after insertion revealed total resolution of the pneumothorax (Figure 6).
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