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Case Reports
. 2010 Jan;103(1):31-3.
doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090204.

A unilateral whiteout: when not to insert a chest drain

Nigel E Drury  1 , Cassiano Moro, Neil Cartwright, Ayyaz Ali, Samer Am Nashef
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Case Reports

A unilateral whiteout: when not to insert a chest drain

Nigel E Drury et al. J R Soc Med. 2010 Jan.
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Figure 1
Plain chest radiograph of left lung field whiteout with ipsilateral tracheal deviation
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Figure 2
CT demonstrating the percutaneous drain in the left ventricle
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