What is your call? Chest tightness and mediastinal widening
Journal
CMAJ
Journal Volume
179
Journal Issue
3
Pages
255-256
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
A 75-year-old woman with stage IV lung adenocarcinoma was admitted to our hospital to receive chemotherapy and a transfusion because of anemia. One unit of packed red blood cells was transfused via a pressure infusor into a Port-a-Cath, which had been implanted in the left side of her chest wall 2
SDGs
Other Subjects
aged; anemia; case report; chest tightness; computer assisted tomography; dyspnea; electrocardiogram; erythrocyte transfusion; female; hematoma; human; laboratory test; lung adenocarcinoma; mediastinal widening; mediastinum hematoma; note; physical examination; tachycardia; tachypnea; thorax pain; thorax radiography; article; central venous catheterization; differential diagnosis; hematoma; mediastinum disease; methodology; Aged; Catheterization, Central Venous; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Hematoma; Humans; Mediastinal Diseases; Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Type
note