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Chest X-ray obtained 2 hours after the trauma showing multiple cystic lesions containing air-fluid levels.
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A chest X-ray obtained within 2 hours of the trauma showed alveolar opacities in the right lower lobe with multiple cystic air spaces containing air-fluid levels (Figure 1).
CT scan of the chest showing thick-walled multicystic lesions with patchy air space opacities.
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A Computed Tomography (CT) scan of the chest showed thick-walled multicystic lesions with patchy air space opacities and consolidations in the right lower lobe (Figure 2).
Chest X-ray of patient repeated 1 year later showing complete resolution of the cystic lesions.
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He remained asymptomatic throughout the interval period and a chest X-ray repeated after one year was normal (Figure 3).
A normal chest CT scan of the patient obtained three years after the trauma.
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Finally, a CT scan of the chest obtained two years later showed complete resolution of the previously described abnormalities (Figure 4).