Bronchial transection: delayed diagnosis and successful repair.
Indian Pediatr
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2004 Apr; 41(4): 389-92
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-9925
ABSTRACT
Traumatic bronchial transection is usually recognized and repaired immediately after injury. Bronchial transection has a variety of clinical presentations due to air leak into the pleural cavity and it is very rare to have total absence of air leak from the transected bronchus at presentation. We present one such case of main right bronchus injury with total absence of initial clinical signs and symptoms, leading to a delay in the diagnosis. However, the surgical repair eight months after injury showed excellent recovery of the chronically collapsed lung.
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Main subject:
Pneumothorax
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Rupture
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Bronchi
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Humans
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Male
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Child
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Intubation, Intratracheal
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian Pediatr
Year:
2004
Type:
Article
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