Article Type Research Article Authors Mazloum S. R.1 PhD, Abbasi Teshnizi M.2 PhD, Kianinejad A.3 BSc, Gandomkar F.* MSc C I T A T I O N L I N K S Article History Received: September 13, 2011 Accepted: October 10, 2012 ePublished: November 5, 2012 Correspondence Address: Postal Code 7188694348, No. 112. 3 Alley, Vahdat Street, Maliabad, Shiraz, Iran. Phone: +989173397847 Fax: +987116263782 f.ga...

Common complications of chest tube thoracostomy (CTT) include lung laceration, chest wall bleeding, improper position of tube, subcutaneous emphysema, and so on. Although intra-abdominal injury because of CTT was possible in stomach, spleen, and liver, published reports are rare and no case of life-threatening hemoperitoneum because of CTT has been published in the literature. Here, we present ...

Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 44, No. 5, October 2001 387 T thoracostomy connected to a chest drainage system is a common procedure in children for the management of pleural effusion. However, it is quite unusual for pneumothorax to occur subsequently in the absence of a pulmonary lesion. We report such a case, which led to numerous superfluous interventions before the true cause was recogn...

TBE-CiTE Journal Club attended by the following institutions: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Trauma Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Risoleta T. Neves Hospital, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; Base Hospital São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil. 1. Associate Professo...

Chest tube insertion is the most commonly performed procedure in the thoracic surgery practice. This surgical procedure has various complications, however, Horner’s syndrome resulting from compression of the stellat ganglia due to apical insertion of chest tube is extremely rare. In this article a 21-year-old male patient who was treated with chest tube insertion for spontaneous pneumothorax at...

Malpositioning is one of the most common complications of chest tube insertion and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We present two cases of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) in whom malpositioned chest tubes penetrated through the anterior mediastinum to the contralateral pleural cavity, and were later removed without complications. Both patients h...

<b>Background:</b> The studies that generally investigate the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods in reducing chest tube removal related pain are remarkable. However, new need to expand use virtual reality glasses evaluate its effectiveness.<br /> <b>Aim</b>: This study aims determine effect distraction with on during patients undergoin...

Pneumothorax is a rare complication in cancer chemotherapy. We report a case in which a male patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) developed repetitive pneumothorax after receiving a combination of the chemotherapeutic drugs gefitinib and amrubicin (GEF + AMR). Both episodes of pneumothorax occurred on the 3rd day of GEF + AMR administration. Tube thoracostomy was performed, ...