Benign expectoration of a surgical clip through a pneumonectomy stump

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1025-1026

  Ahmed, Zahoor ^a   Kaiser, Larry R ^a   Shrager, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR SAC; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIP; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036830482     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.124495     Document Type: Article

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