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Fig. 7 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 7

From: CT imaging of blunt chest trauma

Fig. 7

Blast lung injury. Twenty-two-year-old patient who experienced the explosion of a grenade in his hands. Coronal CT reformatted contrast-enhanced CT image at mediastinal window shows bilateral perilar consolidations mimicking a butterfly or bat-wing appearance, consistent with blast lung. The left lung is almost completely collapsed, and there are bilateral haemothoraces

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