Unusual retained foreign body in the lung: a tree branch.
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Fig. 1. (A) A right anterior chest wall scar indicated the site of the penetrating inju deeper visceral involvement from that accident. The patient claimed that wound deb any further details of the injury or the management received. (B) Chest roentgeno hypodense center. Fibre-optic bronchoscopy demonstrated only a small amount of pur Computed tomography of the chest revealed a 7 cm long hollow tubular structure insi parenchyma.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
دوره 31 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007