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Video-assisted repair of a traumatic intercostal pulmonary hernia
M J Reardon1, J Fabré, P R Reardon
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. reardonm@bcm.tmc.edu
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 16, 1998
Abstract:
A case of traumatic right lung herniation to an area of anterior costal sternal separation and right hemothorax is presented. Application of a thoracoscopic approach to a traumatic lung hernia of the chest wall in this case is discussed.