Pneumothorax Complicating Therapeutic Pneumoperitoneum
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Pneumothorax complicating therapeutic pneumoperitoneum.
Pneumothorax is a rare complication of artificial pneumoperitoneum. Thirty cases have been mentioned in the literature, but only 18 have been described in detail. Full descriptions have been given by Lumsden (1949), Yannitelli, Woodruff, Mueller, and Howard (1949), and Ross and Farber (1951). Jones and Yuill (1952) summarized 10 documented cases and added a case of their own. Since then reports...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.9.3.226