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Robot-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy as treatment of a giant bulla

BACKGROUND: A bulla is a marked enlarged space within the parenchyma of the lung. Bullae may cause dyspnea by compressing healthy lung parenchyma and can cause a pneumothorax. Also, bullae are associated with malignancy, therefore surgical bullectomy is indicated on preventive basis. This case is un...

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Autores principales: Roemers, Rosa, Patberg, Kornelis, van de Wauwer, Caroline, Nguyen, Tam, Shahin, Ghada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0595-3