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. 2022 Aug;52(5):321-323.
doi: 10.1016/j.idnow.2022.05.001. Epub 2022 May 7.

Characteristic outcomes and risk assessment of pneumothorax in 21 patients with COVID-19

L Pierre  1 , J Rieu  1 , T Lemmet  1 , C Ion  1 , S Gravier  1 , M Mohseni-Zadeh  1 , T Lawson  2 , V Gerber  3 , M Martinot  4
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Characteristic outcomes and risk assessment of pneumothorax in 21 patients with COVID-19

L Pierre et al. Infect Dis Now. 2022 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Air leakage; COVID-19; Pneumothorax.

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Fig. 1
Case of a 58-year-old male patient who developed pneumomediastinum or subcutaneous emphysema after high-flow cannula therapy and noninvasive ventilation (thoracic computed tomography, left panel) and who subsequently developed pneumothorax (chest X-ray, right panel).
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