Right Upper Lobe Torsion after Right Lower Lobectomy: A Rare and Potentially Life-Threatening Complication

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(a) An emergency chest computed tomography (CT) showed the middle lung lobe had been pushed upward and forward, and the right upper lung lobe had twisted dorsally. (b) The right upper bronchus with hilar peribronchovascular soft tissue edema (arrow). (c) Three-dimensional CT scan of bronchial stenosis (arrow). (d) Emergency bronchoscopy showing severe right upper bronchial stenosis (arrow). RUL: right lower lobe; RML: right middle lobe.

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