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Management of a life-threatening intercostal artery bleeding, difficult to visualize in open surgery: a case report

Life-threatening bleeding from an intercostal artery is a rare and challenging event. A 74-year-old patient with a right-sided pleural effusion was treated by a pigtail pleural drain. He developed a large haemothorax, initially addressed by a large bore chest tube. As he became haemodynamically unst...

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Autores principales: Laugsand, Eivor Alette, Xanthoulis, Athanasios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7602520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33154815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa444