PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tugba Goktalay
AU  - Sadik Yaldiz
AU  - Aylin Ozgen Alpaydin
AU  - Cihan Goktan
AU  - Pinar Celik
TI  - An Unusual Presentation of Bronchial Rupture
AID  - 10.4187/respcare.01012
DP  - 2011 Jun 01
TA  - Respiratory Care
PG  - 858--860
VI  - 56
IP  - 6
4099  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/56/6/858.short
4100  - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/56/6/858.full
AB  - Persistent hydropneumothorax was diagnosed in a 62-year-old female with a history of blunt trauma, although she was treated with chest tube and closed underwater seal drainage. Computed tomography and fiberoptic bronchoscopy findings were consistent with “fallen lung” syndrome. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy also found a cavitary lesion at the right tracheobronchial angle. Forceps biopsy of the cavitary lesion indicated bronchogenic carcinoma. Our final diagnosis was tracheobronchial complete rupture and fallen lung syndrome secondary to malignancy.