Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report

We report a benign condition of transient lung herniation through a congenital structural defect of the thoracic cage, in a young, otherwise healthy, asymptomatic individual. A brief review of the existing literature on this rare entity is also presented.

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Autores principales: Psathakis, Kostas, Mermigkis, Charalampos, Tsintiris, Kostas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829994
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7524
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spelling pubmed-27401792009-10-14 Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report Psathakis, Kostas Mermigkis, Charalampos Tsintiris, Kostas Cases J Case report We report a benign condition of transient lung herniation through a congenital structural defect of the thoracic cage, in a young, otherwise healthy, asymptomatic individual. A brief review of the existing literature on this rare entity is also presented. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2740179/ /pubmed/19829994 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7524 Text en © 2009 Psathakis et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Psathakis, Kostas
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Tsintiris, Kostas
Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title_full Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title_fullStr Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title_short Transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
title_sort transient lung herniation through a thoracic cage defect: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829994
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7524
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