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Accidental chest penetration of glass foreign bodies in a 53 year old lady—The challenges with video assisted thoracoscopic extraction

INTRODUCTION: In rare cases, a foreign body may penetrate the thoracic cavity without the person’s awareness. I report a case of the traumatic intrathoracic foreign body of glass implants that the patient did not have awareness about. PRESENTATION OF CASE: The 53-year-old woman was unsteady on her f...

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Autor principal: Shoko, Tomohisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27111874
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.03.045

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