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Gastropleural fistula following pulmonary resection.
  1. P A O'Keefe,
  2. P Goldstraw
  1. Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London.

    Abstract

    A 77 year old man with an eight month history of polymyalgia rheumatica treated by steroids underwent left lower lobectomy for a non-small cell carcinoma. Following discharge he developed a pneumothorax, empyema, septicaemia, and acute renal failure. Reinvestigation and reoperation showed this to be caused by a non-malignant non-traumatic direct gastropleural fistula.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thx.48.12.1278

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