Pulmonary hernia: Case report and review of the literature

Pulmonary hernia (PH) is an uncommon condition. We report a case of PH secondary to thoracic surgical intervention. In addition to the rarity, the peculiarity of the case is given by the clinical course as it is characterized by a clinical latency before the onset. The patient showed risk factors su...

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Autores principales: Scelfo, Chiara, Longo, Chiara, Aiello, Marina, Bertorelli, Giuseppina, Crisafulli, Ernesto, Chetta, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30302252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.354
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author Scelfo, Chiara
Longo, Chiara
Aiello, Marina
Bertorelli, Giuseppina
Crisafulli, Ernesto
Chetta, Alfredo
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description Pulmonary hernia (PH) is an uncommon condition. We report a case of PH secondary to thoracic surgical intervention. In addition to the rarity, the peculiarity of the case is given by the clinical course as it is characterized by a clinical latency before the onset. The patient showed risk factors such as obesity and poliomyelitis infection sequelae. We also reviewed the literature about this topic.
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spelling pubmed-61677572018-10-09 Pulmonary hernia: Case report and review of the literature Scelfo, Chiara Longo, Chiara Aiello, Marina Bertorelli, Giuseppina Crisafulli, Ernesto Chetta, Alfredo Respirol Case Rep Case Reports Pulmonary hernia (PH) is an uncommon condition. We report a case of PH secondary to thoracic surgical intervention. In addition to the rarity, the peculiarity of the case is given by the clinical course as it is characterized by a clinical latency before the onset. The patient showed risk factors such as obesity and poliomyelitis infection sequelae. We also reviewed the literature about this topic. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2018-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6167757/ /pubmed/30302252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.354 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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