Spontaneous Transient Lateral Thoracic Lung Herniation Resulting in Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and Subsequent Contralateral Lung Injury

Lung herniation is a relatively rare clinical entity that is most commonly either congenital or acquired traumatically. We describe a case of spontaneous lung herniation secondary to acute cough in an obese male smoker complicated by contralateral acute lung injury and systemic inflammatory response...

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Autores principales: Kaliyadan, Antony, Kebede, Amal, Ali, Tabassum, Karchevsky, Michael, Vasseur, Bernard, Patel, Nirav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084612
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S7002

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