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Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration – a case report

We present a case of a 44-year-old woman, who underwent bilateral breast reduction mammoplasty and suffered a unilateral pneumothorax that was detected postoperatively. Infiltration of a local anesthetic was considered the cause of the pneumothorax. We recommend a more tangential direction of needle...

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Autores principales: Ristola, Marko T., Koskivuo, Ilkka, Giordano, Salvatore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35224136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2043753