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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Case Report
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
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description 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 placement when infiltrating a local anesthetic.
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spelling pubmed-88810722022-02-26 Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration – a case report Ristola, Marko T. Koskivuo, Ilkka Giordano, Salvatore Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg 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 placement when infiltrating a local anesthetic. Taylor & Francis 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8881072/ /pubmed/35224136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2043753 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration – a case report
title_fullStr Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration – a case report
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title_short Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration – a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881072/
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