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Pleural gas gangrene secondary to esophageal injury by an ingested fish bone
Shunsuke Endo1, Akira Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
1Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Utsunomiya Social Insurance Hospital, Tochigi, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery : Official Publication of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery = Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi
|May 8, 2002
Abstract:
We report a 73-year-old woman with right pleural gas gangrene, treated successfully by thoracoscopic debridement. The clinical course and chest computed radiography and thoracoscopy findings suggested that her condition resulted from a relatively rare esophageal injury after she accidentally ingested a fish bone. Video-assisted thoracoscopic intervention has proved useful in cases involving pleural gas gangrene.