Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case
Hemothoraxes are a rare clinical entity at the Intensive Care Unit when there is not a previous trauma. It appears sometimes as a clinical manifestation of tumours, iatrogenies, coagulopathies, or as a non-traumatic hemothorax, called spontaneous hemothorax. The case of a 22 year old man with a spon...
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Editorial Ciencias Médicas
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| author | Luis Alberto Santos Pérez |
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| description | Hemothoraxes are a rare clinical entity at the Intensive Care Unit when there is not a previous trauma. It appears sometimes as a clinical manifestation of tumours, iatrogenies, coagulopathies, or as a non-traumatic hemothorax, called spontaneous hemothorax. The case of a 22 year old man with a spontaneous hemothorax and no previous history of trauma, cough, sputum production or fever, is presented. The patient was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Arnaldo Milián Castro University Hospital in Santa Clara city, Villa Clara, Cuba . The diagnosis by pleural biopsy was chronic pleuritis with mesothelial reaction, and the case was considered as an idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd6772267a714766a8d90823290031b12022-12-22T03:55:51ZspaEditorial Ciencias MédicasActa Médica del Centro2709-79272010-04-01424852475Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a caseLuis Alberto Santos Pérez0Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, CubaHemothoraxes are a rare clinical entity at the Intensive Care Unit when there is not a previous trauma. It appears sometimes as a clinical manifestation of tumours, iatrogenies, coagulopathies, or as a non-traumatic hemothorax, called spontaneous hemothorax. The case of a 22 year old man with a spontaneous hemothorax and no previous history of trauma, cough, sputum production or fever, is presented. The patient was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Arnaldo Milián Castro University Hospital in Santa Clara city, Villa Clara, Cuba . The diagnosis by pleural biopsy was chronic pleuritis with mesothelial reaction, and the case was considered as an idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax.http://www.revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/504hemotorax/diagnósticotoracotomíaeficacia |
| spellingShingle | Luis Alberto Santos Pérez Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case Acta Médica del Centro hemotorax/diagnóstico toracotomía eficacia |
| title | Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case |
| title_full | Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case |
| title_fullStr | Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case |
| title_short | Idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax: apropos of a case |
| title_sort | idiopathic spontaneous hemothorax apropos of a case |
| topic | hemotorax/diagnóstico toracotomía eficacia |
| url | http://www.revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/504 |
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