Management of computed tomography scan detected hemothorax in blunt chest trauma: What computed tomography scan measurements say?

Figure 1 Representative computed tomography scan images of patients with hemothorax. Left: Abdominal window computed tomography (CT) scan showing a 2 cm right-side hemothorax in one patient; Right: Lung window CT scan showing a 6 cm right-side hemothorax in another patient.

Figure 2 Predicted probability for tube thoracostomy. The x-axis is the size of hemothorax and the y-axis is the probability of chest tube placement, which is either zero (no chest tubes) or one (chest tube placed). Each black dot represents a patient with a corresponding hemothorax size.