POCUS IOTW: Pneumothorax
Posted on: September 10, 2018, by : Amit Patel
This was a 16yM with chest pain and multiple hx of PTX and blebectomies. The image below shows m mode over a specify point in the lung over time.
You can see that as the lung goes from normal lung to the PTX the image changes.
This point of change between the 2 is known as the lung point.
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