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Ann Thorac Surg 1975;20:215-236
© 1975 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons


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Complications of Pulmonary Resection

Marvin M. Kirsh, M.D.*, Harold Rotman, M.D., Douglas M. Behrendt, M.D., Mark B. Orringer, M.D., Herbert Sloan, M.D.

From the Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and the Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104.

* Address reprint requests to Dr. Kirsh, C-7175 University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104.

The following complications of pulmonary resection are discussed with reference to their frequency of occurrence, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment: pulmonary insufficiency, arrhythmias, residual intrapleural air spaces, prolonged air leaks, postpneumonectomy empyema, bronchopleural fistula, cardiac herniation, lobar gangrene, esophagopleural fistula, pulmonary embolism, and tumor embolism.




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