An incidental image of a patient with chest pain after fall from a tree:
Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome?
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Sadiye Yolcu, Levent Albayrak ⁎, Ibrahim Caltekin
Bozok University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yozgat, Turkey
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Article history:
Received 1 February 2018
Accepted 9 February 2018
Available online xxxx
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Unilateral hyperlucent lung was firstly described by Swyer and
James 1950s [1]. After that, some patients with same disease were de-
tected by Macleod [2]. Then this syndrome was named as Swyer-
James-Macleod syndrome (SJMS), and this syndrome includes a smaller
or normal sized unilateral hyperlucent lung. The structure of the lungs is
constructed of decreased vascularity and air trapping during expiration.
In literature, this image is known as the sequel of viral/bacterial
infection or tuberculosis and named as bronchiolitis obliterans [3-5].
American Journal of Emergency Medicine xxx (2018) xxx–xxx
☆ Author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.
⁎ Corresponding author at: Bozok Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Acil Tıp AD, Yozgat, Turkey.
E-mail address: levent.albayrak@bozok.edu.tr (L. Albayrak).
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Image 1. Computed tomography image of the patient.
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Please cite this article as: Yolcu S, et al, An incidental image of a patient with chest pain after fall from a tree: Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome?,
American Journal of Emergency Medicine (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2018.02.008