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CXR (A) from first admission demonstrating mild scattered patchy opacity bilaterally and CT (B) with patchy ground-glass opacities bilaterally; no evidence of pneumothorax or pneumomediastinum. CT images (C,D,E) from the second admission date demonstrating anterior-lateral pneumothorax (yellow arrowheads) and small pneumomediastinum (yellow arrows). Portable CXR (F) prior to chest tube placement demonstrating the pneumothorax enlarged to approximately 30% (yellow arrowheads). (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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Chest x-ray (CXR) was significant for mild scattered patchy opacities bilaterally, and computed tomography (CT) was significant for patchy ground-glass opacities bilaterally (Fig. 1A and B). Additionally, there was a small, 1 cm right anterior-lateral pneumothorax and small pneumomediastinum identified (Fig. 1C and D,E). Over the course of the next five days, the pneumothorax progressively enlarged to approximately 30% (Fig. 1 F).