Cavitary lung disease.
A 20-year-old female Ethiopian refugee presented with a 6-month history of cough and progressive left shoulder tip pain. After extensive investigation, which failed to demonstrate a cause, she proceeded to thoracotomy, where a 25-cm length of tubing was found that had perforated the left hemidiaphragm and had extended into the apex of the left lung. This appeared to have arisen as a complication of a termination of pregnancy performed years previously. This represents the first reported case of significant pulmonary trauma arising as a complication of a termination of pregnancy.
King
P T
PT
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.
Cole
P
P
Farmer
M W
MW
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005002:Ethiopia / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D055370:Lung Injury; D012036:Refugees; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*