Iatrogenic Air Leak Successfully Treated by Bronchoscopic Placement of Unidirectional Endobronchial Valves

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2007-2010

  Santini, Mario ^a   Fiorelli, Alfonso ^a   Vicidomini, Giovanni ^a   Laperuta, Paolo ^a   Di Crescenzo, Vincenzo Giuseppe ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG BULLA; LUNG LOBE; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPIROMETRY; SUCTION DRAINAGE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AIR; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 77952317133     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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