Uncertainties in the current understanding of gas exchange in spontaneous pneumothorax: Effective lung ventilation may persist in a smaller-sized pneumothorax

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1144-1149

  Subotic, D ^a   Mandaric, D ^a   Gajic, M ^b   Vukcevic, M ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOXEMIA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LITERATURE; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX PRESSURE;

EID: 17044367810     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.12.012     Document Type: Article

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