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Chest tube in transected left main bronchus after blunt chest trauma
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals 2015, Vol. 23(6) 743 ß The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0218492314524205 aan.sagepub.com
Khalid T AlThagafy1, Sharafuldin Alaoni1, Abdulnassir A Batouk1, Hamed Elgendy1,2 and Sameh I Sersar1,3
Figure 1. (a–d) Computed tomography in pulmonary and mediastinal windows showing the transected left main bronchus, the chest tube in the transected bronchus, left-sided pneumothorax, lung collapse, and surgical emphysema.
A 14-year-old patient was referred from a peripheral hospital with a history of blunt chest trauma due to a motor vehicle accident. Urgent chest computed tomography and fiberoptic bronchoscopy were carried out. They showed almost complete transection of the left main bronchus, with a chest tube in the left main bronchial tear (Figure 1). An urgent left pneumonectomy was performed. The patient made an excellent postoperative recovery.
Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Conflict of interest statement None declared.
1
King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Department of Anaesthesia, Assiut University, Egypt 3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 2
Corresponding author: Sameh I Sersar, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. Email: [email protected]
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Chest tube in transected left main bronchus after blunt chest trauma
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals 2015, Vol. 23(6) 743 ß The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0218492314524205 aan.sagepub.com
Khalid T AlThagafy1, Sharafuldin Alaoni1, Abdulnassir A Batouk1, Hamed Elgendy1,2 and Sameh I Sersar1,3
Figure 1. (a–d) Computed tomography in pulmonary and mediastinal windows showing the transected left main bronchus, the chest tube in the transected bronchus, left-sided pneumothorax, lung collapse, and surgical emphysema.
A 14-year-old patient was referred from a peripheral hospital with a history of blunt chest trauma due to a motor vehicle accident. Urgent chest computed tomography and fiberoptic bronchoscopy were carried out. They showed almost complete transection of the left main bronchus, with a chest tube in the left main bronchial tear (Figure 1). An urgent left pneumonectomy was performed. The patient made an excellent postoperative recovery.
Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Conflict of interest statement None declared.
1
King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Department of Anaesthesia, Assiut University, Egypt 3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 2
Corresponding author: Sameh I Sersar, MD, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt. Email: [email protected]
Downloaded from aan.sagepub.com at Bobst Library, New York University on November 14, 2015
