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We describe a female patient who sustained multiple trauma including severe blunt thoracic trauma with left pulmonary laceration. She survived the pneumonectomy necessary after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Histology of the pneumonectomy specimen showed an incidental pT1 pN1 adenocarcinoma of the upper lobe.
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Received: April 10, 2001; revision accepted: June 18, 2002
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Rupprecht, H., Brod, J. & Bär, K. Successful Pneumonectomy Following Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Polytrauma Patient. Eur J Trauma 28, 270–273 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-002-1124-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-002-1124-0