CASE
HISTORY / CLINIC:
31-year-old patient after a traffic accident. Intubation was done at the accident
site one hour before the roentgenograms were taken. No breath sounds heard over
the left lung.
FINDINGS:
The
following structures can be seen: the trachea
and tracheal bifurcation, a tubus, mediastinal
shift to the left, total
atelectasis on the left, and a central
venous catheter that has been displaced laterally to the left of
the spinal column.
DIAGNOSIS:
Atelektasis due
to wrong
intubation. Mediastinal
shift to the left.
DIFFERENTIALDIAGNOSE:
Large pleural effusion
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