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Transient unilateral hyperlucent lung due to mucus plugs
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 63-year-old patient with a tracheostomy presented with a transient unilateral hyperlucent lung and absent breath sounds over the left lower lobe. A tracheobronchial cast and an additional floating mucus plug in the left lower lobe bronchus were retrieved with fiberbronchoscopy. Subsequently normalisation of ventilation and radiological appearance of the left lung occurred.