A rare complication of pneumonectomy: Diagnosis made by a literature search

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1198-1200

  Crosbie, P A J ^a   Cooper, A N ^b   Ray, S ^a   O'Driscoll, R ^a  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyspnoea; Hypoxia; Orthodeoxia; Platypnoea; Pneumonectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLIP; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PLATYPNOEA ORTHODEOXIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STANDING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANOXEMIA; ANOXIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTURE; PUBMED; SYNDROME;

EID: 23344440355     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.02.010     Document Type: Article

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