Surgical sutures migration presenting as a lung segmentalatelectasis
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Lebanese Order of Physicians
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Lung resection is rarely associated with late complications. Bronchoscopy performed to evaluate a right upper lobe mass and anterior segment atelectasis in a patient with bladder cancer showed old sutures from a prior surgery. The sutures had migrated and obstructed the lumen of the anterior segment of the right upper lobe bronchus. The sutures were removed with resolution of the atelectasis. To our knowledge this is the first case report of surgical sutures that have migrated into the airway, causing airway obstruction and presenting as a lung segmental atelectasis adjacent to a lung mass.
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Bronchoscopy, Postoperative complications, Sutures migration, Carboplatin, Cefpodoxime, Gemcitabine, Mebendazole, Oxyhemoglobin, Aged, Article, Asymptomatic disease, Atelectasis, Bladder carcinoma, Cancer chemotherapy, Cancer staging, Case report, Clinical article, Computer assisted tomography, Coughing, Device migration, Female, Fine needle aspiration biopsy, Follow up, Haemophilus influenzae, Human, Human cell, Human tissue, Iraqi, Lung hydatid cyst, Lung lavage, Lung lobe, Lung parenchyma, Lung resection, Medical history, Pneumonia, Positron emission tomography, Serratia marcescens, Thoracotomy, Transitional cell carcinoma, Very elderly