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Overview of the Spectrum of Chest Tubes with Focus on the Tunneled Pleural Catheter: Disease-Specific Selection

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Chest tube placement has been a long-standing therapeutic intervention in the setting of pneumothorax, empyema, and hemothorax. Competency in placement is required by surgeons, intensivists, pulmonologists, emergency room physicians, and radiologists.

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  1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, 41 Mall Road, Burlington, MA, 01805, USA

    Mohammed Alnijoumi MD, Ghazwan Acash MD & Carla Lamb MD

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Alnijoumi, M., Acash, G., Lamb, C. (2018). Overview of the Spectrum of Chest Tubes with Focus on the Tunneled Pleural Catheter: Disease-Specific Selection. In: Díaz-Jimenez, J., Rodriguez, A. (eds) Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58036-4_30

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