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Chest computed tomography on admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions. There are ground-glass opacities in the peripheral lesion just below the pleura of the right middle and lower lobes.
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CT showed multiple GGOs just below the peripheral pleura, without rib fractures and/or traumatic pulmonary pseudocysts (Fig. 1). Computed tomography also revealed fractures of the pelvis, 11th thoracic vertebra, and right femur and calcaneus.
Clinical course of symptoms and treatment during intensive care unit admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions. The patient had had a fever (>37.5 C) for 15 days. The repetitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and follow-up computed tomography (CT) findings released the quarantine at day 5 after intensive care unit admission.
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Although his fever continued even after hospitalization, the results of real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19 carried out on days 2 and 3 were negative (Fig. 2).
Chest computed tomography on day 5 of admission of a 36-year-old man with pulmonary contusions, showing the reduction in the small ground-glass opacities.
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Moreover, CT carried out on day 5 showed less GGOs and localization of the pulmonary contusions compared with initial CT (Fig. 3).