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Kevin J Scholten1, Vivek Kulkarni, Jay B Brodsky
1Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|July 25, 2007
Abstract:
A patient with a prior left pneumonectomy required surgical drainage of a right upper lobe aspergilloma. A left double-lumen endobronchial tube was placed in the right bronchus intermedius, isolating the right upper lobe while allowing ventilation of the right middle and lower lobes.

