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[Overlooked bronchial rupture after blunt thoracic injury]
L B Ilkjaer1, H K Pilegaard, S Bille
1Hjerte-, lunge-, karkirurgisk afdeling T., Skejby Sygehus, Arhus.
Ugeskrift for Laeger
|November 7, 1994
Abstract:
A 72-year-old man developed a total atelectasis of the right lung six weeks after a blunt trauma in a motor vehicle accident. Bronchoscopy demonstrated a total fibrotic occlusion of the right main bronchus. By re-examination of earlier case sheets and chest x-rays it was suspected that the patient had suffered a partiel bronchial rupture from the accident. One and a half centimetres of the bronchus were resected with a good result. Findings and treatment of this rare complication are discussed.