Right main bronchus rupture due to blunt chest trauma

Bronchial rupture following major blunt chest trauma should be suspected in every case of massive and persistent air leak through the intercostal drain tube. Chest radiogram offers indirect signs, while chest CT scan demonstrates specific signs highly suggestive for this extremely rare tracheobronch...

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Autores principales: Chowdhury, Sharfuddin, Griniatsos, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1953
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description Bronchial rupture following major blunt chest trauma should be suspected in every case of massive and persistent air leak through the intercostal drain tube. Chest radiogram offers indirect signs, while chest CT scan demonstrates specific signs highly suggestive for this extremely rare tracheobronchial injury. Bedside bronchoscopy confirms the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-63330612019-01-17 Right main bronchus rupture due to blunt chest trauma Chowdhury, Sharfuddin Griniatsos, John Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Bronchial rupture following major blunt chest trauma should be suspected in every case of massive and persistent air leak through the intercostal drain tube. Chest radiogram offers indirect signs, while chest CT scan demonstrates specific signs highly suggestive for this extremely rare tracheobronchial injury. Bedside bronchoscopy confirms the diagnosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6333061/ /pubmed/30656055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1953 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 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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title_short Right main bronchus rupture due to blunt chest trauma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333061/
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