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    Life threatening nontraumatic tension gastrothorax
    (Wiley, 2018-03-08) El Hajj, Ihab I.; McCabe, Marshall; Ceppa, DuyKhanh P.; Fridell, Jonathan A.; Sherman, Stuart; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Tension gastrothorax is a rare condition, which poses a diagnostic dilemma and can be mistaken for a tension pneumothorax. Awareness of the risk factors, clinical presentation, and radiology findings of tension gastrothorax can help with the prompt identification and successful management of this life-threatening condition.