19 June 2021>: Articles
A 64-Year-Old Man with Traumatic Right Middle Lobe Lung Herniation Successfully Managed Conservatively
Challenging differential diagnosis, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Management of emergency care, Rare disease
Walter J. Morales Borrero A* , José Maldonado Vargas ADOI: 10.12659/AJCR.931446
Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e931446
Figure 2. Follow-up chest computed tomography (CT) scan performed in the Emergency Department: (A) contrast-enhanced chest CT performed the day of admission showing a moderate right pneumothorax with a concomitant anterior chest wall defect through which a portion of the right middle lobe is herniating (arrows); (B, C) sagittal and 3-dimensional reconstruction showing the same anterior wall defect and consequent intercostal hernia of the right middle lobe (arrows).