Suggested revision of textual definition
A pneumatocele is a thin walled, gas-filled space in the lung. It is most frequently caused by acute pneumonia, trauma, or aspiration of hydrocarbon fluid and is usually transient. The mechanism is believed to be a combination of parenchymal necrosis and check-valve airway obstruction (107). A pneumatocele appears as an approximately round, thin-walled airspace in
the lung.
PMID:18195376
Comment
See Figure 52 of Hansell DM, et al., Fleischner Society: glossary of terms for thoracic imaging. Radiology. 2008 Mar;246(3):697-722.
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Suggested revision of textual definition A pneumatocele is a thin walled, gas-filled space in the lung. It is most frequently caused by acute pneumonia, trauma, or aspiration of hydrocarbon fluid and is usually transient. The mechanism is believed to be a combination of parenchymal necrosis and check-valve airway obstruction (107). A pneumatocele appears as an approximately round, thin-walled airspace in the lung.
PMID:18195376
Comment See Figure 52 of Hansell DM, et al., Fleischner Society: glossary of terms for thoracic imaging. Radiology. 2008 Mar;246(3):697-722.