Rounded atelectasis with pleuritis: diagnosis and surgical treatment.
A 73-year-old male was admitted with a large rounded atelectasis with pleural effusion. The involved lung was refilled with air as soon as surgical decortication of the thickened visceral pleura covering it was performed. Surgical treatment is believed to be necessary when a large rounded atelectasis with pleural effusion persists for a long time, or when malignancy is not completely excluded.
Kinoshita
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Oka
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M
Hirose
K
K
Taniguchi
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T
Soda
H
H
Hara
K
K
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery