Tension pneumocephalus resulting from iatrogenic subarachnoid-pleural fistulae: Report of three cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 455-457

  Bilsky, Mark H ^a   Downey, Robert J ^a   Kaplitt, Michael G ^a   Elowitz, Eric H ^b   Rusch, Valerie W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FISTULA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETHARGY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBROMA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHIZOTOMY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0035110112     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02339-0     Document Type: Article

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