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Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report

Trapped lung is defined by the lung's inability to expand and fill the thoracic cavity because of a restricting “peel” caused by benign or malignant pleural disease. However, trapped lung secondary to pneumothorax is rarely reported. We present a case of trapped lung caused by a pneumothorax th...

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Autores principales: Tian, Yan, Zheng, Wenqi, Zha, Nashunbayaer, Wang, Yufei, Huang, Shaojun, Guo, Zhanlin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29802756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12770
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author Tian, Yan
Zheng, Wenqi
Zha, Nashunbayaer
Wang, Yufei
Huang, Shaojun
Guo, Zhanlin
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Zheng, Wenqi
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description Trapped lung is defined by the lung's inability to expand and fill the thoracic cavity because of a restricting “peel” caused by benign or malignant pleural disease. However, trapped lung secondary to pneumothorax is rarely reported. We present a case of trapped lung caused by a pneumothorax that occurred some 14 years before the patient presented to our hospital with a complaint of incapacitating dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) scans revealed trapping of the right lung with abnormal thickening of the visceral pleura. In view of the patient's history of pneumothorax, we concluded that his dyspnea was attributable mainly to the trapping of his lung by the earlier pneumothorax. We therefore scheduled thoracoscopic decortication, which was successfully completed. The patient's recovery after the operation was uneventful, and seven weeks after surgery the right lung had re‐expanded well.
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spelling pubmed-60684432018-08-03 Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report Tian, Yan Zheng, Wenqi Zha, Nashunbayaer Wang, Yufei Huang, Shaojun Guo, Zhanlin Thorac Cancer Case Reports Trapped lung is defined by the lung's inability to expand and fill the thoracic cavity because of a restricting “peel” caused by benign or malignant pleural disease. However, trapped lung secondary to pneumothorax is rarely reported. We present a case of trapped lung caused by a pneumothorax that occurred some 14 years before the patient presented to our hospital with a complaint of incapacitating dyspnea. Computed tomography (CT) scans revealed trapping of the right lung with abnormal thickening of the visceral pleura. In view of the patient's history of pneumothorax, we concluded that his dyspnea was attributable mainly to the trapping of his lung by the earlier pneumothorax. We therefore scheduled thoracoscopic decortication, which was successfully completed. The patient's recovery after the operation was uneventful, and seven weeks after surgery the right lung had re‐expanded well. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2018-05-26 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6068443/ /pubmed/29802756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12770 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by China Lung Oncology Group and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Tian, Yan
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Guo, Zhanlin
Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title_full Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title_fullStr Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title_short Thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: A case report
title_sort thoracoscopic decortication for the management of trapped lung caused by 14‐year pneumothorax: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29802756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12770
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