Multislice CT in the diagnosis of bronchopleural fistula
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Multislice CT in the diagnosis of bronchopleural fistula
1. Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil. 2. Departamento de Radiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Brasil. A 55-year-old man underwent right upper lobe resection after sustaining a chest injury in an automobile accident. An air leak persisted for 5 days after the surgery. On the fifteenth postoperative day, the patient was referred to our emergen...
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#{176}Fromthe Division of Pulmonary Disease, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, DepartmentofMedicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1806-3713
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37562016000000233