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Successful treatment for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with severe thoracic emphysema using v...

Successful treatment for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with severe thoracic emphysema using v...

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Successful treatment for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with severe thoracic emphysema using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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Full title

Successful treatment for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with severe thoracic emphysema using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Publisher

Japan: Springer Japan

Journal title

General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2010-11, Vol.58 (11), p.584-587

Language

English

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Japan: Springer Japan

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Contents

Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is a rare, highly fatal disease that occurs as a complication of a cervical or odontogenic infection spreading into the mediastinum. We herein report of a 50-year-old man with DNM and severe thoracic emphysema who was successfully treated using surgical drainage by videoassisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS...

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Successful treatment for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with severe thoracic emphysema using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_764496542

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_764496542

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ISSN

1863-6705

E-ISSN

1863-6713

DOI

10.1007/s11748-009-0553-7

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