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1 The extrapleural fat sign
Elena Alventosa Fernández, MD, Luisa Elena Rodríguez Delgado, MD, Emilio Martín Díaz, MD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 135, Issue 1, Pages (January 2008) DOI: /j.jtcvs Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Contrast-enhanced axial CT image demonstrates a large collection of increased attenuation, interpreted as a hematoma, that contains the chest tube separated from the enhancing partially collapsed left lower lobe by a fat attenuation stripe. This fat ribbon is known as the extrapleural fat sign and establishes the extrapleural location of the lesion. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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