Spontaneous resolution of massive right-sided pneumothorax occurring during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 100-103

  Karayiannakis, Anastasios J ^a   Anagnostoulis, Stavros ^a   Michailidis, Konstantinos ^a   Vogiatzaki, Theodosia ^a   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MONITORING; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 17844366837     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sle.0000161168.92763.2b     Document Type: Article

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