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Bilobar atelectasis after difficult tracheal intubation.
Anaesthesia
December 1997
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of General Anesthesiology, OH 44195, USA.
Acute intra-operative collapse of a lobe without apparent cause is rare. We report a case of transient bilobar atelectasis that developed without any apparent cause after a difficult tracheal intubation in a healthy young patient. Intrabronchial obstruction was ruled out by bronchoscopy.
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May 1997
Department of Surgery, Harford Hospital, Connecticut, USA.
Study Objective: To define the most severe form of postlobectomy atelectasis and determine its incidence, predisposing factors, and clinical ramifications.
Design: Retrospective case control.
Setting: The thoracic surgery unit at a 900-bed tertiary care hospital.
Combined atelectasis of right upper and middle lobes: a clinical study of 15 cases.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi (Taipei)
November 1991
Department of Medicine, Veterans General Hospital-Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Because of the independent and remote origin of the right upper and middle lobe bronchi, combined collapse of right upper and middle lobes is thought to be uncommon. We report 15 cases of combined right upper and middle lobe collapse found by plain chest radiograph in the past 8 years. Malignancies were confirmed in 13 cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report here a patient with tracheal and endobronchial metastatic seminoma who presented with acute respiratory failure with right upper and middle lobe collapse. Diagnosis of the etiology of the atelectasis was made by fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Radiation therapy caused a marked reversal of the atelectasis.
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