Fatal stroke after completion pneumonectomy for torsion of left upper lobe following left lower lobectomy

BACKGROUND: The lobar torsion after lung surgery is a rare complication with an incidence of 0.09 to 0.4 %. It may occur after twisting of the bronchovascular pedicle of the remaining lobe after lobectomy, usually on the right side. The 180-degree rotation of the pedicle produces an acute obstructio...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Apostolakis, Efstratios, Koletsis, Efstratios N, Panagopoulos, Nikolaos, Prokakis, Christos, Dougenis, Dimitrios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1584227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-25

Ejemplares similares

Ejemplares similares