Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report

Lung hernias are rare, occurring most commonly after trauma or surgery. Spontaneous lung hernias are even rarer and have only been reported as occurring anteriorly. We present a 72-year-old male who developed a spontaneous posterior lung hernia after a severe coughing episode. We describe the evalua...

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Autores principales: Jastrow, Kenneth M, Chu, Danny, Jaroszewski, Dawn, Huh, Joseph, Bakaeen, Faisal
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19171045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-86
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author Jastrow, Kenneth M
Chu, Danny
Jaroszewski, Dawn
Huh, Joseph
Bakaeen, Faisal
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description Lung hernias are rare, occurring most commonly after trauma or surgery. Spontaneous lung hernias are even rarer and have only been reported as occurring anteriorly. We present a 72-year-old male who developed a spontaneous posterior lung hernia after a severe coughing episode. We describe the evaluation and surgical management of this unusual condition and provide a brief review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-26427872009-02-14 Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report Jastrow, Kenneth M Chu, Danny Jaroszewski, Dawn Huh, Joseph Bakaeen, Faisal Cases J Case Report Lung hernias are rare, occurring most commonly after trauma or surgery. Spontaneous lung hernias are even rarer and have only been reported as occurring anteriorly. We present a 72-year-old male who developed a spontaneous posterior lung hernia after a severe coughing episode. We describe the evaluation and surgical management of this unusual condition and provide a brief review of the literature. BioMed Central 2009-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2642787/ /pubmed/19171045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-86 Text en Copyright ©2009 Jastrow et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jastrow, Kenneth M
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Huh, Joseph
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Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title_full Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title_fullStr Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title_short Posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
title_sort posterior lung herniation after a coughing spell: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642787/
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