Re-discovering the heimlich valve: Old wine in a new bottle
A 14-year-old boy came to our outpatient department with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea. He was found to have a loculated empyema on the right side. He was taken up for surgery and decortication was done. He developed air leak in the postoperative period. When the air leak did not settle until the...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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Series: | Lung India |
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Online Access: | http://www.lungindia.com/article.asp?issn=0970-2113;year=2017;volume=34;issue=1;spage=70;epage=72;aulast=Narasimhan |