Side markings of the neonatal chest X-ray: two legal cases of pneumothorax side mix up.
Two medicolegal case reports are presented. They involve chest X-ray with left-and-right side confusion due to lack of radio-opaque side markers. Two premature babies with pneumothorax got thoracostomy on the wrong side, in one case with a fatal outcome.
Finnbogason
Thröstur
T
Department of Paediatric Radiology, Karolinska Hospital, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
Bremmer
Staffan
S
Ringertz
Hans
H
D015505:Chest Tubes / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013907:Thoracostomy