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Fatal mediastinal compression as a late complication of surgical plombage.

Surgical plombage was used as a form of collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis before the advent of reliable chemotherapy. A patient developed stridor, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, and obstruction of the superior vena cava and eventually died as a result of haemorrhage into a large intr...

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Published in:Thorax
Main Authors: Skinner, J S, Sinclair, D J
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 1992
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC463722/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1585300/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1136/thx.47.4.321
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