Isolated clavicle fractures are among the commonest of traumatic fractures in the emergency department. Complications of isolated clavicle fractures are rare. Pneumothorax has been described as a complication of a fractured clavicle only rarely in English literature. In all the reported cases, the pneumothorax was treated by a thoracostomy and the clavicle fracture was treated conservatively. I...

TOPIC: Imaging TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Dyspnea is defined as a patient's experience of his or her own breathlessness and powerful clue an underlying pathology that may not be confined to the cardiopulmonary system. Gastrointestinal often overlooked etiology intrathoracic unusual cause respiratory symptoms (1). Hiatal hernias rarely present dyspnea are usually s...

Percutaneous catheter drainage is a standard therapy for management of selected intra-abdominal abscesses. We describe three patients in whom this technique caused complicated thoracic empyemas. All patients required thoracotomy for decortication despite initial thoracostomy tube drainage. In each case, the percutaneously placed drainage catheter was found traversing the costophrenic angle, lea...