Omentoplasty and Thoracoplasty for treating postpneumonectomy bronchopleural fistula in a patient previously submitted to aortic prosthesis implantation

Bronchopleural fistula following pneumonectomy is a serious and frightening complication in chest surgery with a high mortality rate. The possibility of curing this complication using a conservative treatment is extremely poor. Below we describe a case of a patient affected by left pleural empyema d...

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Autores principales: Nosotti, Mario, Cioffi, Ugo, De Simone, Matilde, Mendogni, Paolo, Palleschi, Alessandro, Rosso, Lorenzo, Ciulla, Michele M, Santambrogio, Luigi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19630966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-38

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19630966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-38

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