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  • Title: [Surgical choices in the treatment of lung gangrene].
    Author: Rudin EP, Bogdanov AV, Chernyshev VS, Zemskov EV.
    Journal: Grud Serdechnososudistaia Khir; 1990; (4):45-7. PubMed ID: 2372426.
    Abstract:
    Patients with gangrene of the lung should be treated at a specialized thoracic department. Nonoperative treatment is justified only as preoperative management applied for no more than 2 weeks. Pneumonectomy is the operation of choice in gangrene of the lung. Pneumotomy may be conducted in patients who are in a very grave condition with respiratory and hemodynamic disorders.
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