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Case Reports
. 2015 Apr-Jun;18(2):269-71.
doi: 10.4103/0971-9784.154501.

Right main bronchus bulge after capnothorax for thoracoscopic esophagectomy: an interesting finding on fiber-optic bronchoscopy through a double lumen tube!

Uma Hariharan  1 , Binod Kumar Naithani, Shagun Bhatia Shah
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Case Reports

Right main bronchus bulge after capnothorax for thoracoscopic esophagectomy: an interesting finding on fiber-optic bronchoscopy through a double lumen tube!

Uma Hariharan et al. Ann Card Anaesth. 2015 Apr-Jun.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Image through the fiber-optic bronchoscope showing longitudinal bulge in the lumen of the right main bronchus
Figure 2
Figure 2
Right bronchial bulge occluding its lumen and the blue left bronchial cuff
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