Study Looks at EVALI Findings in Teens (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Study Looks at EVALI Findings in Teens (3 of 3)

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Images in a 16-year-old boy with 2-year history of daily nicotine and tetrahydrocannabinol vaping presented with 1.5 weeks of cough, shortness of breath, nausea, and vomiting. (a) Posteroanterior digital chest radiograph from day of presentation shows bilateral symmetric ground-glass opacities with lower lobe predominance. (b) Axial lung window (width, 1500; level, ?700) image of noncontrast chest CT performed 1 day after presentation demonstrates bilateral ground-glass opacities with subpleural sparing (arrowheads).

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