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Ragesh Panikkath1, Deepa Panikkath1.
Abstract
The chest radiograph of a 63-year-old woman who was found unresponsive was concerning for pneumopericardium, but lacked the other corroborative features suggestive of pneumopericardium. None of the follow-up chest radiographs showed evidence of air around the heart. The radiolucent shadow that mimicked pneumopericardium in this case was due to an artifact known as Mach band sign, an illusion created by lateral inhibition in the light receptors in the retina.Entities:
Year: 2014 PMID： 25484514 PMCID： PMC4255869 DOI： 10.1080/08998280.2014.11929161
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) ISSN： 0899-8280