Massive (? Active) Pulmonary Collapse following Pneumonia
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Experimental massive pulmonary collapse.
Interest in atelectasis has in recent years been revived by the increased recognition of its frequency. It has been demonstrated that complete obstruction of the air passage supplying a unit of the lung which does not also communicate with another air passage will produce atelectasis.'3 It has been shown4 that this is due to absorption by the body fluids of the gases contained in that part of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1932
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591573202500427