Open window thoracostomy for a chronic calcified pleural empyema in the setting of a closed chest trauma.
Calcified pleural empyema
bronchopleural fistula
open window thoracostomy
Journal
SAGE open medical case reports
ISSN: 2050-313X
Titre abrégé: SAGE Open Med Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101638686
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
27
11
2020
accepted:
27
05
2021
entrez:
28
6
2021
pubmed:
29
6
2021
medline:
29
6
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This case report is a chronic calcified pleural empyema in a patient who suffered a closed chest trauma 30 years ago. The first goal is to demonstrate how the closed chest trauma caused a bronchopleural fistula of the calcified pleural empyema, since the patient began to report continued purulent sputum after his trauma with weight loss and the appearance of an air-fluid level in the chest CT scan (no pleurocutaneous fistula in the clinical examination). The second goal is to reveal the rule and the interest of an open window thoracostomy in the management of chronic calcified pleural empyema, since a decortication remains difficult to perform in cases like this one.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34178354
doi: 10.1177/2050313X211025437
pii: 10.1177_2050313X211025437
pmc: PMC8207291
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
2050313X211025437Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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