Medical Image of the Week: Iatrogenic Pneumothorax

Figure 1: AP Chest X Ray showing an unfortunate placement of a feeding tube (yellow tracing) as it passes through the left mainstem bronchus and loops into the left pleural space causing a moderate size pneumothorax (arrows).

Aarthi Ganesh, MD; Ryan Nahapetian, MD; Prathima Guruguri, MD, and Carmen Luraschi-Monjagatta, MD

Department of Medicine

University of Arizona, South Campus

Tucson, Arizona

Reference as: Ganesh A, Nahapetian R, Guruguri P, Luraschi-Monjagatta C. Medical image of the week: iatrogenic pneumothorax. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2013;6(3):150. PDF