Bilateral pneumothoraces complicating reduction mammoplasty: a case report

BACKGROUND: Bilateral pneumothoraces after cosmetic breast surgery are rare and sporadically reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 65-year-old female patient developed bilateral pneumothoraces after bilateral breast reduction surgery. Emergent chest tube thoracostomy was performed on both...

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Autores principales: Mavridis, Stylianos, Gnauk, Hans Georg, Schumacher, Martina, Wagner, Roland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23890488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-29
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author Mavridis, Stylianos
Gnauk, Hans Georg
Schumacher, Martina
Wagner, Roland
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description BACKGROUND: Bilateral pneumothoraces after cosmetic breast surgery are rare and sporadically reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 65-year-old female patient developed bilateral pneumothoraces after bilateral breast reduction surgery. Emergent chest tube thoracostomy was performed on both sides. The chest drains were removed on the fourth day (left side) and sixth day (right side), and the patient was discharged after 7 days of hospitalization without any further complications. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, the English-language literature contains no other reports of bilateral pneumothoraces after reduction mammoplasty.
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spelling pubmed-37280392013-07-31 Bilateral pneumothoraces complicating reduction mammoplasty: a case report Mavridis, Stylianos Gnauk, Hans Georg Schumacher, Martina Wagner, Roland BMC Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Bilateral pneumothoraces after cosmetic breast surgery are rare and sporadically reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 65-year-old female patient developed bilateral pneumothoraces after bilateral breast reduction surgery. Emergent chest tube thoracostomy was performed on both sides. The chest drains were removed on the fourth day (left side) and sixth day (right side), and the patient was discharged after 7 days of hospitalization without any further complications. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, the English-language literature contains no other reports of bilateral pneumothoraces after reduction mammoplasty. BioMed Central 2013-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3728039/ /pubmed/23890488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-29 Text en Copyright © 2013 Mavridis 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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