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Chest Trauma: Current Recommendations for Rib Fractures, Pneumothorax, and Other Injuries

open access: yesCurrent Anesthesiology Reports, 2020
Purpose of Review This article provides an overview of the common and important chest injuries that the anesthesiologist may encounter in patients following trauma including blunt injury, pneumothorax, hemothorax, blunt aortic injury, and blunt cardiac ...
Michelle Y. Kim, James E. Moore
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Incidental radiological finding of a renal tumour leading to the diagnosis of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterised by benign tumours of the hair follicle, renal cancer, pulmonary cysts and spontaneous pneumothorax.
Dewilde, Dirk   +5 more
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Tension pneumothorax in a patient with COVID-19

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2020
A 36-year-old man was brought to the emergency department with suspected COVID-19, following a 3-week history of cough, fevers and shortness of breath, worsening suddenly in the preceding 4 hours. On presentation he was hypoxaemic, with an SpO2 of 88% on
L. Flower   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Endometriosis: An Unusual Cause of Bilateral Pneumothoraces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A 27-year-old female presented to the emergency department with sudden onset shortness of breath. A diagnosis of bilateral catamenial pneumothoraces was made following chest radiograph. Catamenial pneumothorax is a recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax that
Sampson, Christopher S., White, Kathleen
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Large pneumothorax following thoracic and lumbar tumor surgery: Risk factors and management strategies

open access: yesFrontiers in Surgery, 2023
ObjectiveLarge pneumothorax is a rare but dangerous complication following thoracic and lumbar tumor surgery. There is little discussion about the features of large pneumothorax following spinal tumor surgery. The purpose of this study was to analyze the
Yan Lou   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neonatal Pneumothorax in Late Preterm and Full-Term Newborns with respiratory Distress: A Single-Center Experience [PDF]

open access: yesNeonatal Medicine, 2022
Purpose To evaluate the incidence rate, clinical characteristics, and perinatal outcomes of pneumothorax in late preterm and full-term newborns with respiratory distress and analyze the risk factors associated with pneumothorax.
Eun-Ah Kim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cannabis and the lung [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The use of cannabis is embedded within many societies, mostly used by the young and widely perceived to be safe. Increasing concern regarding the potential for cannabis to cause mental health effects has dominated cannabis research and the potential ...
Macleod, J, Reid, P T, Robertson, Roy
core   +1 more source

Videothoracoscopic surgical approach for spontaneous pneumothorax: review of the pertinent literature

open access: yesWorld Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2008
Spontaneous pneumothorax is usually caused by the rupture of subpleural blebs/bullae in the underlying lung and is one of the most common elective applications of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).
Sakurai Hiroyuki
doaj   +1 more source

Pneumothorax rates in CT-Guided lung biopsies: A comprehensive systematic review and Meta-Analysis of risk factors.

open access: yesBritish Journal of Radiology, 2019
OBJECTIVES This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated risk factors for pneumothorax following computed tomography-guided percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy.
Y. Huo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Case report of severe pneumothorax due to lung cancer treated with anlotinib

open access: yesJournal of International Medical Research, 2023
Anlotinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor for the treatment of lung cancer. Pneumothorax is a rare complication of anlotinib treatment.
Haowei Lu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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