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False radiographic appearance of a right bronchial stump following extended right pneumonectomy
F Varoli1, D Sonnino, C Bonfioli
1Department of General Surgery, University of Milan, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Milano, Italy.
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
|October 19, 1999
Abstract:
The authors describe three cases in which postoperative frontal chest radiographs following extended right pneumonectomy showed a right hilar lucency producing the false appearance of a residual main bronchus that is shown by additional studies to represent a dilated esophagus.