Iatrogenic pneumothorax after breast reduction surgery caused by local anesthesia infiltration - a case report

: Ristola Marko T., Koskivuo Ilkka, Giordano Salvatore

Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

: 2022

: Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery

: CASE REPORTS IN PLASTIC SURGERY AND HAND SURGERY

: CASE REP PLAST SURG

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2022.2043753

: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23320885.2022.2043753

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/174872771

We present a case of a 44-year-old woman, who underwent bilateral breast reduction mammoplasty and suffered a unilateral pneumothorax that was detected postoperatively. Infiltration of a local anesthetic was considered the cause of the pneumothorax. We recommend a more tangential direction of needle placement when infiltrating a local anesthetic.

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