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. 2021 Feb;36(1):81-84.
doi: 10.4266/acc.2020.00689. Epub 2020 Dec 21.

Pneumothorax rate in intubated patients with COVID-19

Kathleen M Capaccione  1 , Belinda D'souza  1 , Jay Leb  1 , Lyndon Luk  1 , Jimmy Duong  2 , Wei-Yann Tsai  2 , Ben Navot  1 , Shifali Dumeer  1 , Ahmed Mohammed  3 , Mary M Salvatore  1
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Pneumothorax rate in intubated patients with COVID-19

Kathleen M Capaccione et al. Acute Crit Care. 2021 Feb.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Selection criteria for patients included in this study. IRB: Institutional Review Board; COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-positive patients with small (dashed arrow) and moderate pneumothoraces (solid arrow) (A, B), and large pneumothorax (solid arrow) (C, D) in the coronal and axial planes.
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