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Description: Main bronchus laceration. Caption reads, "FIGURE 5.—Schematic showing of results of laceration of main bronchus. This injury will always produce a pneumothorax with leakage of large amounts of air even under closed drainage with strong suction. Thoracotomy is indicated."
Title: Main bronchus laceration
Credit: Surgery in World War II: Thoracic surgery, Volume II (1965). Medical department, United States Army.CHAPTER I: Special Types of Thoracic Wounds. Direct link: [1]
Author: Lyman A. Brewer III, M.D., and Thomas H. Burford, M.D.
Permission: pd - US Army
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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