Premature newborn on ventilator with respiratory distress

Chest
CXR of pneumothorax
Supine CXR shows a large amount of air in the right pleural space with inversion of the right hemidiaphragm and mediastinal shift to the left. There is also evidence of pulmonary interstitial emphysema in the right lung.

The diagnosis was a right tension pneumothorax in a patient with pulmonary interstitial emphysema.

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