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(Chest. 1973;64:518-520.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Tension Lung Cyst as a Complication of Postoperative Positive Pressure Ventilation Therapy

John Tinker M.D.1; Leroy Vandam M.D.1; and Lawrence H. Cohn M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Department of Anesthesia and Surgery, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston

A patients with bilateral pneumothorax is presented in whom staged, bilateral pleural abrasions were planned. Following the removal of blebs from one lung, postoperative IPPV produced a tension lung cyst in the opposite lung causing compression of the lung and mediastinum, requiring emergency operation on the opposite thorax and resection of a giant bullae. The case is an unusual complication of IPPV therapy in a patient with chronic obstructive lung disease.






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