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In vivo Measurement of the Mouse Pulmonary Endothelial Surface Layer
Published on: February 22, 2013
[Broken chest tube into the pleural cavity by a Monod' trocar]
A Gaucher1, Q Levrat, A Troitzky
1Service d'anesthésie réanimation, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
Abstract:
We report the case of a 56-year-old man who presented a section of a chest drain into the pleural cavity. Following an oesogastrectomy with coloplasty for oesophageal carcinoma, the patient developed a pleural effusion. During the implementation of pleural drainage, the intrathoracic drain tip was sectioned. The patient underwent a thoracotomy to remove the foreign body. The drain was probably cut during device removal through the particularly cutting trocar. This observation strengthens the need to refrain from withdrawing the movement tube through a Monod trocar.
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