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(Chest. 1949;15:1-23.)
© 1949 American College of Chest Physicians

Postmortem Pneumothorax

DAVID SALKIN M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 The Veterans Administration Hospital, San Fernando, California.

1) Artificial pneumothorax was produced in cadavers and many of the results were identical with those seen in pneumothorax in living patients.

2) The chief effects so produced included mobility of the chest cage, descent of the diaphragm, mobility of the heart, transmediastinal herniation, selective collapse, atelectasis, reduction in the size of pulmonary cavities, and changes in parenchymal infiltrations.

3) These findings contribute to the physics of pneumothorax and stress the importance of the purely mechanical factors involved.

4) The clinical application of these observations are of particular value in the roentgen interpretation of disease processes and changes.






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