RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Traumatic lung pseudocyst.
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 516
OP 519
DO 10.1136/thx.42.7.516
VO 42
IS 7
A1 T Shirakusa
A1 Y Araki
A1 M Tsutsui
A1 R Motonaga
A1 M Iwanaga
A1 H Ogami
A1 K Matsuba
YR 1987
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/42/7/516.abstract
AB Traumatic lung pseudocyst is an uncommon lung injury due to closed chest trauma. Four cases are reported; all were male and one was a child. Three cases showed spontaneous resolution of the pseudocyst and in one case, where resolution was slow, lobectomy was carried out at the patient's insistence. Diagnosis poses no serious problems as there is inevitably a history of substantial chest trauma. The chest radiograph shows a characteristic cavitatory lesion. The pseudocysts may be multiple. Tomography may be helpful in diagnosis and computed tomography can be particularly useful in the demonstration of paramediastinal traumatic pseudocysts.