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Equipment and Supplies > Surgical Equipment > Chest Tubes

Preferred term

Chest Tubes  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • "used for drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space"

Scope note

  • Plastic tubes used for drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space. Their surgical insertion is called tube thoracostomy.

History note

  • 90

In other languages

  • pleuradreenit

    Finnish

  • Bülow
  • Bülowin katetri
  • Bülowin katetrit
  • pleuradreeni
  • pleuraimu
  • pleuraimut
  • pleuraputket
  • pleuraputki
  • Toraxdrän

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015505

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