An 11-year-old child was admitted to the ED of the Children's City Clinical Hospital and was urgently referred for an ultrasound scan with a diagnosis of chest wound. According to the child, climbing over the hedge, he pierced himself with its part (barbed wire). According to the child, the doctors had already washed the wound with something. Visually, there is a wound several mm in the lower third of the chest on the right. On ultrasound, the wound is projected over the liver up to 1 cm long, the lesion zone with a fuzzy outline, with echogenic inclusions (air?) Is traced to the level of the muscles of the anterior chest wall, where anechoic inclusion is visualized. Free fluid in the abdominal and pleural cavities was not visualized, the liver was without structural changes. external link |