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Chest radiographs of near-drowned children

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From 1972 through 1983 there were 10 near-drowned children (7 boys and 3 girls) aged 1 to 4 years, treated as inpatients at the Children's Hospital of the Medical Academy Dresden. Three of them showed a severe aspiration pneumonia which in one case was complicated by bilateral pneumothoraces. In a further five children there were radiological signs of pulmonary oedema. Only in two children were the X-ray pictures of the chest normal.

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  1. Children's Hospital, Dresden, GDR

    P. Wunderlich, E. Rupprecht & J. Burkhardt

  2. Surgical Clinic, Dresden, GDR

    F. Trefftz

  3. Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of the Medical Academy “Carl Gustav Carus”, Dresden, GDR

    H. Thomsen

  4. Medizinische Akademie “C.G. Carus”, Fetscherstr. 74, DDR-8019, Dresden, GDR

    P. Wunderlich

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Wunderlich, P., Rupprecht, E., Trefftz, F. et al. Chest radiographs of near-drowned children. Pediatr Radiol 15, 297–299 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02386760

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