Plombage Therapy by Eurico Oliveira, Ana Campos, João Alexandre

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Plombage: A historical image by Sónia da Costa Fernandes, Catarina Patronillo, Catarina Marques

“…Key message Plombage is a historical treatment in which a cavity is created surgically in the upper chest wall and the space is filled with inert material, such as fat, paraffin wax, rubber balloons, oil or methyl‐methacrylate (Lucite) balls, and it also promotes lung collapse.…”
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Closure of open window thoracostomy due to MRSA pyothorax by EWS bronchial occlusion and modified extraperiosteal air plombage: a case report by Masami Kuramochi, Mayumi Shinonaga, Setsuo Kuraoka

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First experience of simultaneous extrapleural lung resection with silicone plombage for widespread drug-resistant destructive pulmonary tuberculosis: a case report by Elena V. Krasnikova, L. N. Lepeha, V. K. Aliev, R. V. Tarasov, A. E. Ergeshova, M. A. Bagirov

Subjects: “…simultaneously extrapleural pneumolysis with silicone plombage and lung resecton…”
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