Subcutaneous seroma after diagnostic thoracentesis
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Subcutaneous seroma after diagnostic thoracentesis.
CMAJ © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1 A72-year-old woman with a history of hypertension presented with progressive swelling of the right posterior chest wall that had been present for two days following a diagnostic thoracentesis. She had developed progressive dyspnea two weeks before presentation, and had been assessed elsewhere. A chest radiograph taken at that time had ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.092218