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Case Reports
. 1990 Mar;97(3):759-60.
doi: 10.1378/chest.97.3.759.

Tension pneumothorax complicating small-caliber chest tube insertion

S E Mainini  1 , F E Johnson
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Tension pneumothorax complicating small-caliber chest tube insertion

S E Mainini et al. Chest. 1990 Mar.

Abstract

We report two patients who developed tension pneumothorax as a result of improper attachment of a Heimlich valve to a chest tube.

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