{"pk":994,"title":"Hemithorax Westermark Sign Secondary to Complete Pulmonary Artery Occlusion from Pulmonary Embolus","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Case Presentation:\n We describe a complete right hemithorax Westermark sign found in a patient with a near-complete, right pulmonary artery trunk occlusion secondary to a pulmonary embolus.\nDiscussion:\n We review the sensitivity and specificity of a Westermark sign in the identification of a pulmonary embolism, and how this aided us in managing our patient in the emergency department.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Westermark"},{"word":"pulmonary embolism"},{"word":"radiology"}],"section":"Images in Emergency Medicine","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41w786v5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Louthan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Riverside Community Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Riverside, California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ng","name_suffix":"","institution":"Riverside Community Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Riverside, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-03-01T14:59:12-08:00","date_accepted":"2021-03-01T14:59:12-08:00","date_published":"2021-03-01T15:00:24-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/994/galley/741/download/"}]}