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Influence of a fibrothorax on the flow/volume curve
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Stellenbosch Medical School, Tygerberg, South Africa.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Rigidity of the thorax with relatively 'normal' lungs can show typical changes in the flow/volume curve that could be diagnostic. These changes caused by 'entrapment' of the lungs are described and illustrated by means of a case report of a patient with bilateral fibrothorax caused by bilateral tuberculous pleural effusions.