RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Asphyxia while swallowing solid food caused by bronchial compression: a variant of the pneumonectomy syndrome.
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 382
OP 383
DO 10.1136/thx.49.4.382
VO 49
IS 4
A1 K M Fong
A1 K D McNeil
A1 K P Kennedy
A1 K S Matar
A1 P H Cole
A1 J B Partridge
YR 1994
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/49/4/382.abstract
AB A 40 year old man presented with recurrent episodes of dyspnoea whilst swallowing solid food. He had undergone right pneumonectomy and thoracoplasty for recurrent pneumonias and empyema 23 years previously. Solid food boluses appeared to cause bronchial obstruction by compressing the surgically distorted left main bronchus. This is a new variant of the post pneumonectomy syndrome.