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Plombage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plombage was a surgical method used prior to the introduction of anti-tuberculosis drug therapy to treat cavitary tuberculosis of the upper lobe of the lung. The term derives from the Latin word " p...
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· Early treatments of TB relied upon rest, proper nutrition and isolation ... · There were other procedures such as thoracoplasty and plombage ... · Plombage involved the extrapleural insertion of a “plombe” to collapse the lung. They included:
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Seven patients underwent collapse therapy with polystyrene sphere plombage for pulmonary disease caused by multidrug-resistant mycobacteria. Four patients were infected with multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, two with Mycobacterium xenopi, one with Mycobacterium avium.
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Images in Clinical Medicine from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Lucite-Ball Plombage.
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Images in Clinical Medicine from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Infection 57 Years after Plombage ... In 1948, the patient had pulmonary tuberculosis and underwent extrapleural pneumonolysis (plombage) with polymethyl methacrylate (acrylic or Lucite) balls. The symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis resolved after...
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Main Entry: plom·bage. Pronunciation: "pl&m-'bäzh. Function: noun : sustained compression of the sides of a pulmonary cavity against each otherto effect ...
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As soon as complications due to migration of extraperiosteal plombage material had been documented, early removal became the rule. Some patients who have escaped this rule may still present with long-term complications.
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Such therapy, until the 1950s, included artificial pneumothorax, phrenic nerve crush, thoracoplasty and extrapleural plombage. ... The latter therapeutic option has been associated with a number of late complications such as chronic pyothorax, migration of plombage, erosion of blood vessels and adjacent organs,
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