False radiographic appearance of a right bronchial stump following extended right pneumonectomy.

J Thorac Imaging

Department of General Surgery, University of Milan, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Milano, Italy.

Published: October 1999

The authors describe three cases in which postoperative frontal chest radiographs following extended right pneumonectomy showed a right hilar lucency producing the false appearance of a residual main bronchus that is shown by additional studies to represent a dilated esophagus.

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