| Author | Year | Type of study | Number of cases (m/f) | Number of diagnoses | Complications of pneumothorax | Bleeding complications | ||||
| Ultrasound group | CT Group | Ultrasound group | CT Group | Ultrasound group | CT Group | Ultrasound group | CT Group | |||
| Cozzolino | 2020 | Randomized control | 28/12 | 28/12 | 38 | 39 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 |
| El-Sharawy | 2016 | Randomized control | 35/15 | 34/16 | 44 | 45 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Jarmakani | 2015 | Randomized control | 32/23 | 87/43 | 54 | 113 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Lee | 2018 | Randomized control | 78/72 | 60/40 | 147 | 93 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Mychajlowycz | 2020 | Randomized control | 22/21 | 54/61 | 42 | 114 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 8 |
| Sconfienza | 2013 | Randomized control | 44/59 | 71/99 | 100 | 164 | 6 | 25 | 1 | 2 |
| Yamamoto | 2019 | Randomized control | 49/12 | 54/16 | 57 | 59 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 5 |