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Lung ultrasonography as a tool to guide perioperative atelectasis treatment bundle in head and neck cancer patients undergoing free flap reconstructive surgeries: a preliminary observational study

Abstract Introduction: General anesthesia causes pulmonary atelectasis within few minutes of induction. This can have significant impact on postoperative outcome of cancer patients undergoing prolonged reconstructive surgeries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of sonograp...

Atelectasia e alterações pulmonares em recém-nascidos prematuros no período neonatal: laudo radiológico cego e achados clínicos

RESUMO Objetivo: Verificar a ocorrência e as características de atelectasias, opacidades, hipotransparências e infiltrados pulmonares evidenciados ao raio X de tórax dos recém-nascidos prematuros, de uma unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal. Métodos: Trata-se de estudo observacional transversal....

Sclerosing mediastinitis causing unilateral pulmonary edema due to left atrial and pulmonary venous compression. a case report and literature review

Abstract Sclerosing mediastinitis (SM), previously named chronic fibrosing mediastinitis, is an inflammatory process that in its end-stage results to sclerosis around the mediastinal structures. SM is quite rare and has been correlated with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, as well as malignancy. SM ...

The efficacy of thoracic ultrasonography in postoperative newborn patients after cardiac surgery

Abstract Objective: In this study, the efficacy of thoracic ultrasonography during echocardiography was evaluated in newborns. Methods: Sixty newborns who had undergone pediatric cardiac surgery were successively evaluated between March 1, 2015, and September 1, 2015. Patients were evaluated for effusi...

Signo radiológico: signo de Luftsichel

Rev. chil. radiol; 22 (2), 2016
Abstract. The Luftsichel sign corresponds to a crescent-shaped paraaortic hyperlucency in frontal chest radiograph caused by the collapse of the left upper lobe. Its recognition is relevant, especially in adult patients, where we should considered an endobronchial neoplasia as the first possible etiology...