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Query: UMLS:C0010200 (cough)
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A 70-year-old man admitted our clinic because of a painful bulge in the left chest wall that had appeared following a bout of coughing. CT confirmed the presence of lung herniation at the left eight interspace. At surgery a 3 x 16 cm anterolateral defect in the site was confirmed. A patch of Gore-Tex (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) was fashioned and sewn into the defect with interrupted 3-0 Ethibond sutures. Spontaneous intercostal lung hernia is a rare lesion of thoracic wall and have not been reported in Japan. We describe a case with some reviewing.
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PMID:[Spontaneous intercostal lung hernia]. 163 34