Unexpandable lung in an elderly Nigerian woman

Unexpandable lung in an elderly Nigerian woman

Unexpandable lung is a complication of lung diseases resulting in the inability of the lung to expand to the chest wall due to a variety of lung parenchymal and pleural pathologies. We present the case of an elderly woman with chronic empyema thoracis with failure of lung re-expansion following ches...

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Main Author:	Adebola Oluwabusayo Adetiloye
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PAMJ 2020-08-01
Series:	PAMJ Clinical Medicine
Subjects:	lung entrapment pleural manometry trapped lung unexpandable lung
Online Access:	https://www.clinical-medicine.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/3/166/pdf/166.pdf

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