Erschienen in:
01.01.2011 | Case Report
Hemoptysis in a Teenager with Congenital Heart Disease
verfasst von:
Nisreen Rumman, Stuart Berger, Aparna Rao
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Cardiology
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Ausgabe 1/2011
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Excerpt
Expectoration of foreign objects has been reported mainly in adults. Expectorated objects have included staples after lung volume reduction surgery (metalloptysis) [
8], gallstones after laparoscopic cholecystectomy [
12], masses of tumor tissue or polyps [
11], and bullets [
10] migrating through lung parenchyma and eventually expectorated. There is little information about expectoration of foreign materials in children. …