Bilateral pulmonary contusion, flail chest and respiratory failure on late iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration and severe kyphoskoliosis: a case report

BACKGROUND: We present a case of a 79 year old Caucasian Greek female with multiple acute and chronic diseases that in conjunction led to a critical condition. CASE PRESENTATION: She had a chronic iatrogenic diaphragmatic eventration, chronic severe kyphoskoliosis and an acute thoracic trauma due to...

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Autores principales: Hountis, Panagiotis, Moraitis, Sotirios, Dedeilias, Panagiotis, Antonopoulos, Nikolaos, Toufektzian, Levon, Douzinas, Mattheos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19040741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-358

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