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Parapneumonic pleural effusion. Accidental insertion of a chest tube into right pulmonary artery

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital General Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain
^b Department of Cardiac Surgery, Recoletas Clinic, Albacete, Spain

Received 28 April 2008; received in revised form 23 May 2008; accepted 9 June 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital General Universitario, Hermanos Falcó 37, 02006 Albacete, Spain. Tel.: +34 967597213; fax: +34 967597213. (Email: tonyhonguero@yahoo.es).

Key Words: Chest tube • Pleural effusion • Iatrogenic injury • Pulmonary artery

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A 56-year-old man suffered a right pneumonia and homolateral pleural effusion. After chest tube drain, hemothorax through . . . [Full Text of this Article]