Spontaneous pneumothorax during pregnancy is a rare but serious condition. The typical symptoms of spontaneous include pleuritic chest pain and shortness breath. Diagnosis usually made on X-ray with abdominal shielding. Management differs according to severity no specific guidelines are described for management in pregnancy. We report case 27-year-old multigravida, insignificant past medical hi...

Fig. 1. Axial CT-scan image showing intercostal catheter located in the right pulmonary artery. Fig. 2. CT-scan image six weeks post removal of the catheter showing the sealed tract. used is by no means innocuous. Bleeding complications have been seen in patients with dense adhesions in the pleural space and in the post-pneumonectomy state. In the latter situation pulmonary vascular injury has ...

TBE-CiTE Journal Club attended by the following institutions: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Trauma Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Risoleta T. Neves Hospital, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; Base Hospital São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. 1. Associate Professo...

Chest tube insertion is the most commonly performed procedure in the thoracic surgery practice. This surgical procedure has various complications, however, Horner’s syndrome resulting from compression of the stellat ganglia due to apical insertion of chest tube is extremely rare. In this article a 21-year-old male patient who was treated with chest tube insertion for spontaneous pneumothorax at...

Tube thoracostomy is a standard therapy for a number of pulmonary disorders. The procedure is associated with a certain incidence of morbidity related to the technique of insertion, the patient population selected, and the length of time the tube remains in place. Complications of tube placement previously described include empyema, residual pneumothorax, lung perforation, placement of the tube...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Previous articles have promoted the early use of thoracotomy and decortication for refractory empyema. This study examines thoracoscopy and decortication at the time of initial chest tube placement in pediatric patients with parapneumonic empyema. DESIGN We reviewed the medical records of 16 consecutive patients who were children with parapneumonic empyema. RESULTS Thirteen...