The Vacuum Phenomenon
A CT Sign of Nonunited Fracture
Bernard Stallenberg1,
Afarine Madani1,
Franz Burny2 and
Pierre Alain Gevenois1
1
Department of Radiology, Hôpital Erasme,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik
808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
2
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hôpital
Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1070
Brussels, Belgium.

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Fig. 1A. 18-year-old man with fracture of left humeral diaphysis.
Axial CT image photographed with window at 2004 H and level at 379 H shows two
gas bubbles (arrows) between bone fragments.
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Fig. 1B. 18-year-old man with fracture of left humeral diaphysis.
Density profile for A shows gaseous nature of bubbles (respectively
white and black curved arrows).
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Fig. 2A. 52-year-old man with fracture of left tibial diaphysis.
Straight arrows = gas bubbles. Axial CT image photographed with window at 2050
H and level at 400 H shows linear gas collection (arrow) between bone
fragments.
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Fig. 2B. 52-year-old man with fracture of left tibial diaphysis.
Straight arrows = gas bubbles. Multiplanar reconstruction of A
generated sequential coronal image photographed with window at 2050 H and
level at 400 H shows linear gas collection (arrows) within
fragments.
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