VATS bullectomy and apical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax in a young patient with Swyer-James-Mc Leod syndrome: case report presentation and literature review focusing on surgically treated cases

BACKGROUND: Swyer-James-McLeod Syndrome (SJMS) is an uncommon, emphysematous disease characterized by radiologic hyperlucency of pulmonary parenchyma due to loss of the pulmonary vascular structure and to alveolar overdistension. CASE REPORT: We herein describe a 15-year-old Caucasian patient with w...

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Autores principales: Panagopoulos, Nikolaos, Papavasileiou, Gerasimos, Koletsis, Efstratios, Kastanaki, Myrto, Anastasiou, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24410793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-13

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