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Treatment of plastic bronchitis.

Nayar S, Parmar R, Kulkarni S, Cherian KM

Department of Pathology, Frontier Lifeline, and Dr KM Cherian Heart Foundation, Chennai, India. divya_s35@hotmail.com

Plastic bronchitis may be seen after palliative surgery for cyanotic heart disease. Although type II (acellular) casts are seen more commonly, we describe a type I cast after palliative surgery for cyanotic heart disease in which ligation of thoracic duct did not result in complete resolution.

Published 27 April 2007 in Ann Thorac Surg, 83(5): 1884-6.
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