Giant lung abscess treated by tube thoracostomy

Tube thoracostomy in the treatment of tension from giant

At the time of his hospital admission, he was noted to be tachypneic at rest hut felt subjectively he had been clinically improving. His leukemia was still in remission by laboratory analysis. Clinical examinatiomi identified decreased breath sounds over the right side of his chest. A CXR revealed a neai@complete lucency of the right hemithorax and a slight shift of the mediastimsum to the oppo...

Spontaneous pneumothorax. Management by tube thoracostomy and suction.

Delayed perforation of the esophagus by a closed thoracostomy tube.

We report on a previously undocumented complication of a trocar-free thoracostomy tube--delayed perforation of a normal esophagus. The complication presented clinically with fever and copious enteric drainage four days after thoracostomy tube insertion. Diagnosis was established by a contrast study of the esophagus. Retrospectively, the postinsertion chest radiograph showed the offending thorac...

Tube Thoracostomy: Complications and Its Management

Background. Tube thoracostomy is widely used throughout the medical, surgical, and critical care specialities. It is generally used to drain pleural collections either as elective or emergency. Complications resulting from tube thoracostomy can occasionally be life threatening. Aim. To present an update on the complications and management of complications of tube thoracostomy. Methods. A review...

Horner's syndrome secondary to tube thoracostomy.

Tube thoracostomy is a common therapeutic approach applied in medical practice. Certain complications of this procedure have been described in the literature. Oculosympathetic paresis, or Horner's syndrome, occurs from the interruption of second order preganglionic neurons and manifests as miosis, ptosis, hemifacial anhidrosis and enophthalmos. Iatrogenic Horner's syndrome, on the other hand, v...