False radiographic appearance of a right bronchial stump following extended right pneumonectomy.
The authors describe three cases in which postoperative frontal chest radiographs following extended right pneumonectomy showed a right hilar lucency producing the false appearance of a residual main bronchus that is shown by additional studies to represent a dilated esophagus.
Varoli
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Department of General Surgery, University of Milan, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Milano, Italy.
Sonnino
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Bonfioli
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Vergani
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Romanelli
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Roviaro
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001995:Bronchography; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004947:Esophagus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed