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Fig. 4 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Fig. 4

From: Invasive mechanical ventilation complications in COVID-19 patients

Fig. 4

61-year-old male with hypertension and diabetes, intubated 5 days post admission. a–c serial frontal chest X-ray films demonstrate a left pneumothorax (black arrow), pneumomediastinum (white arrows) and surgical emphysema 8 days after intubation then progression of surgical emphysema. Note bilateral ill-defined air space opacities throughout both lungs. d–f & g–i axial and coronal reconstructing CT serial images, respectively, confirming the left pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum and extensive surgical emphysema

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