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A: CT scan of the chest, sagittal reformatted, lung window. The pneumothorax is more evident (black arrow), with a collapsed segment of the lung noted (red arrow). Fig. 1B shows the volume rendered image (lateral view), with the area of pneumothorax, depicted in green. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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A chest CT was obtained which clearly delineated a left-sided pneumothorax with a collapsed segment of the lung as seen in Fig. 1.
a: Image guided needle aspiration with 16G needle (arrow) in situ.. Fig. 2b: Post intervention axial scan, showing almost complete resolution of the left sided pneumothorax.
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a: Follow up scan done 6 weeks later shows complete resolution of the left sided pneumothorax, with the lung tissue fully re-expanded. Fig. 3b shows the volume rendered image (frontal view) depicting fully re-expanded lungs.
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Fig. 3.