The scan revealed subcutaneous emphysema in the abdomen, hips, back, chest, and neck, along with bilateral upper lobe collapse and right lung middle lobe collapse, tracheal rupture, mediastinal ...

When it first develops, emphysema, one of a group of lung diseases known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is usually asymptomatic. As the illness progresses, however, it causes ...

Experts call this area your “mediastinum.” It holds your heart and its large vessels, your trachea or windpipe, your esophagus, your thymus gland, and some of your lymph nodes. This surgical ...

The lung is compressed, and the mediastinum may be shifted, and the opposite lung compromised as well. A 15-cm. lateral thoracotomy incision is made under light general anesthesia. A biopsy of the ...

Pneumonia causes inflammation in the alveoli in one or both lungs. The inflamed alveoli fill with pus, which makes it hard to breathe. Emphysema is a chronic, or long-term lung disease. It usually ...

Between 2000 and 2017, of 698 patients with RACD, there were 146 patients who developed primarily significant MV disease requiring surgery. All patients were free of recurrent malignancy at the time ...