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Images in emergency medicine
Right kidney passing into the intrathoracic space after blunt abdominal trauma
  1. Ryota Inokuchi1,
  2. Katsuhiko Hashimoto1,
  3. Hiroko Kobayashi2,
  4. Tokiya Ishida1,
  5. Akinori Matsumoto1,
  6. Yoshibumi Kumada1,
  7. Hideyuki Yokoyama1,
  8. Megumi Okada1,
  9. Fumihito Ito1,
  10. Itaru Saito1,
  11. Kazuaki Shinohara1
  1. 1 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
  2. 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ryota Inokuchi, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, 2-5-20 Nishinouchi, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8558, Japan; inokuchir-icu{at}h.u-tokyo.ac.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-202172

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    The patient was a 67-year-old man who showed right massive haemothorax after being run over by a low-speed vehicle. In the ambulance, his Glasgow Coma Scale score was 15/15 (eyes: 4; verbal: 5; motor: 6) and he was able to speak. However, he went into cardiopulmonary arrest during transportation. On admission to our hospital 40 min after arrest, right massive haemothorax was detected. The …

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    • Contributors RI, KH, TI, AM, YK, HY, MO, FI, IS and KS contributed to patient management. RI, KH, HK, TI and KS performed the diagnostic imaging. RI and KS contributed to writing and reviewing the report. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.

    • Funding None.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient’s family for publication of this case report and any accompanying images.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.