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Percutaneous Drainage of Recurrent Pneumothoraces and Pneumatoceles
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Percutaneous Drainage of Recurrent Pneumothoraces and Pneumatoceles

Lewis J Kaplan, Stanley Z Trooskin, Thomas A Santora and Jeffrey P Weiss
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, v 41(6), pp 1069-1072
Dec 1996
PMID: 8970569

Abstract

Thoracic trauma victims commonly sustain visceral pleural injury with resultant pneumothorax.These injuries usually respond to standard tube thoracostomy decompression and drainage. However, a subset of these patients develop recurrent and/or loculated pneumothoraces or pneumatoceles that are not readily accessible by tube thoracostomy. Percutaneous catheter drainage of these collections provides a safe and reliable method of management in critically ill patients.

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