Case ReportEmergency ultrasound in the diagnosis of traumatic extrathoracic lung herniation☆,☆☆,★,★★
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Abstract
Traumatic extrathoracic lung herniation is an extremely rare and poorly described complication of blunt trauma. Diagnosis has been limited to computed tomographic imaging, which takes both time and requires the patient to leave the emergency department (ED). Focused assessment with sonography in trauma has become routine in the evaluation of blunt trauma in the ED before obtaining computed tomographic imaging. We report a case on use of the extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma
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