The kitten's heart should be in contact with his sternum (breastbone.) Instead, it is elevated, lifted up by an accumulation of air in the chest cavity. One lung is all black, filled with air, while the other is much smaller and gray in color. That lung has collapsed.
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Normal Canine Chest X-Ray
Pneumothorax
* tension pneumothorax(한쪽폐의 공기누출로 반대쪽폐가 압박받는상태).
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| Fig. 2 | |
| (A) Mediastinal shift observed on the 15th postoperative day on a ventrodorsal radiograph of a dog with right pneumonectomy. h: heart. (B) This postmortem ventro-dorsal radiograph shows tension pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema (arrow) in a dog with BPF. |
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