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HERNIAS OF THE MEDIASTINUM DURING THE COURSE OF ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX
- Source :
- Archives of Surgery. 14:306
- Publication Year :
- 1927
- Publisher :
- American Medical Association (AMA), 1927.
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Abstract
- When air gains access to the pleural cavity a displacement of the mediastinum frequently takes place. This mobility of the mediastinum depends on the flexibility of its tissues, the lack of pleural or pleuro-pericardial adhesions, the pressure created within the pleural space and the size or volume of the pneumothorax. The entire mediastinum may be shifted or a part of it. Thus, only the upper or only the lower portion of it may be displaced. Besides these variations in the position of the mediastinum, a protrusion of the pneumothorax cavity through the mediastinum into the sound, or untreated, side, occasionally takes place, thus forming a culdesac, or hernia. The most frequent point for a hernia of this nature to occur is in the upper anterior part of the mediastinum between the first and third ribs. Here the right pleura and the left pleura come in closest contact and are separated
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Rib cage
business.industry
Mediastinum
respiratory system
Pleural cavity
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Surgery
Entire mediastinum
body regions
Right pleura
surgical procedures, operative
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pneumothorax
medicine
Artificial pneumothorax
Hernia
Radiology
business
neoplasms
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00040010
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Archives of Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........5a0db63d951a659eeabfd3f7121fd9bd