Contralateral tension pneumothorax following unilateral chest tube drainage of bilateral pneumothoraces in a heart-lung transplant patient

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Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1131-1133

  Lee, Y C Gary ^a,b   McGrath, Gregory B ^a   Chin, Weng S ^a   Light, Richard W ^a,b,c  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart lung transplant; Pneumothorax; Transbronchial biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 0032717291     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.4.1131     Document Type: Article

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