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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:233-234
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Rapidly accumulating spontaneous pulmonary hematoma

Ibrahim Sersar Sameh, MBBCH, Mohammed ElShabrawii, MBBCH, Ahmed Sabry Elsaeid, MBBCH, Yasser Ahmed Farag, MD, Shaban Abulela, MD, Mohammed Mounir El Salid, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria, Mansoura 123, Egypt

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To the Editor:

We read with the greatest interest the article entitled "Rupture of a Chronic Expanding Hematoma of the Thorax Into Lung Parenchyma."1 We have the following comments. First of all, there is a delay in patient management. Why did the authors not do a diagnostic bronchoscopy, and why did they do a pneumonectomy and not a lobectomy? The chest radiograph A is a case suggestive of aspiration pneumonia. We wonder why they chose median sternotomy and not a thoracotomy. What was the pathology . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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