Massive Spontaneous Hemopneumothorax Complicating Rheumatoid Lung Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1521-1523

  Basoglu, Ahmet ^a   Celik, Burcin ^a   Yetim, Tulin Durgun ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG DISEASE; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; X RAY PICTURE;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOPNEUMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PREDNISONE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947303565     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.09.052     Document Type: Article

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