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Does plain radiography predict pneumothorax size?
  1. Gary Sudwarts, SHO,
  2. David Foler, Senior Registrar in Accident and Emergency
  1. Great Ormand Street Hospital

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2006.044396

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      Report by Gary Sudwarts, SHO 
 Checked by David Foler, Senior Registrar in Accident and Emergency 
 Great Ormand Street Hospital

      Three part question

      In [a patient with a pneumothorax] are [plain chest x rays] reliable [in predicting volume of air in the chest]?

      Clinical scenario

      A 22-year-old male presents to you in Accident and Emergency complaining of sudden onset of shortness of breath and right sided pleuritic chest pain. He has clinical signs in …

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