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Minimally invasive management of traumatic lung herniation
Post-traumatic pulmonary hernia can occur immediately after thoracic trauma or it may also appear months or even years after the onset. We report a case of a seventeen year-old male patient with thoracic blunt trauma secondary to high energy bicycle accident. Chest CT shows moderate hemothorax and pneumothorax, displaced fracture of the fifth left rib, and protusion of pulmonary tissue through ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Case Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2147-2475
DOI: 10.5505/respircase.2016.95867