VATS bullectomy and apical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax in a young patient with Swyer-James-Mc Leod syndrome: case report presentation and literature review focusing on surgically treated cases

Nikolaos Panagopoulos,Gerasimos Papavasileiou,Efstratios Koletsis,Myrto Kastanaki,Nikolaos Anastasiou

VATS bullectomy and apical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax in a young patient with Swyer-James-Mc Leod syndrome: case report presentation and literature review focusing on surgically treated cases

2014

Nikolaos Panagopoulos
Gerasimos Papavasileiou
Efstratios Koletsis
Myrto Kastanaki
Nikolaos Anastasiou

Background Swyer-James-McLeod Syndrome (SJMS) is an uncommon, emphysematous disease characterized by radiologic hyperlucency of pulmonary parenchyma due to loss of the pulmonary vascular structure and to alveolar overdistension.

Keywords:

Bronchiolitis obliterans
Surgery
Bronchiectasis
Radiology
Cardiac surgery
Angiography
Cardiothoracic surgery
Pneumothorax
Pleurectomy
Pneumonectomy
Medicine
pulmonary parenchyma
Pulmonary vascular structure

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