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Traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst

Author(s) -

Jacob George,

Neeraj Gupta,

RakeshC Gupta,

Ramakant Dixit

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of critical illness and injury science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 2231-5004

pISSN - 2229-5151

DOI - 10.4103/2229-5151.114276

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary contusion , blunt , thoracic trauma , radiology , parenchyma , pulmonary injury , lung , pathology , pulmonary fibrosis

Blunt thoracic trauma manifests in various ways, depending on the structures injured and type of injury. Commonly manifested as parenchymal contusion, at times, pseudacavitation may also been seen on the chest X ray. They are to be differentiated from other causes of pulmonary cavitations which are often done based on history. The so called pulmonary pseudo cysts usually have a benign course and needs only observation.

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