Portable chest radiograph rib fractures

The AP portable film of the chest (image A, and magnified in image B) reveals acute fractures of the lateral aspects of left sided ribs 2, 3, and 4 (red arrows) following trauma. No pneumothorax is present.

AP: anterior-posterior.

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