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Fig. 3. —Midsternal stripe sign is visualized in 67-year-old man who developed sternal dehiscence after median sternotomy for repair of type I aortic dissection. Coned-down image of lower mediastinum from portable chest radiograph shows wide midsternal stripe (paired black arrows) corresponding to cleft between two sternal fragments. Note rightward displacement of lower sternal wires (right lateral margin demarcated by open black arrows) with respect to more proximal wire (right lateral margin demarcated by closed white arrow).

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