Concomitant presentation and resolution of a post-traumatic pneumothorax and pneumopericardium.

The association of a right pneumothorax and a pneumopericardium due to non-penetrating trauma is exceedingly unusual. A patient with both complications presented 7 hours after a motorcycle accident. These were detected incidentally on a scout film for CT for lumbar fractures and both resolved entirely and simultaneously after chest tube insertion in the right pleural space.