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1958 PART V Pediatric Sonography

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FIG. 56.14 Ultrasound Guidance for Treatment of Loculated Chest Empyema. (A) Semisolid extrapleural inlammatory material with septae

(arrows) compressing the airless adjacent left lung (black *). (B) Access needle (arrows) entering the empyema. (C) Left chest tube (arrows)

inserted for drainage and for installation of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a very successful combined treatment of this condition formerly

treated by thoracotomy. (D) Radiograph showing left chest tube position.

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