Van Gelderen W F, al-Hindawi M, Archibald C G
Department of Radiology, Wanganui Base Hospital, New Zealand.
Australas Radiol. 1996 Nov;40(4):450-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1996.tb00446.x.
The association of a right pneumothorax and a pneumopericardium due to non-penetrating trauma is exceedingly unusual. A patient with both complications presented 7 hours after a motorcycle accident. These were detected incidentally on a scout film for CT for lumbar fractures and both resolved entirely and simultaneously after chest tube insertion in the right pleural space.