bronchopleural

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English

Etymology

From broncho- +‎ pleural.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bronchopleural (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Relating to, or connecting the bronchus and the pleura
    • 2013 May 31, Kun-Moo Choi, Young-Don Kim, Jae-Hong Ahn, “Closure of pancreatoduodenal fistula using vascular occluding coil embolization and fibrin glue injection: a case study”, in Korean Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, volume 17, →DOI:
      Recently, a long list of embolic agents, including blood clots, gelatin, silicon rubber plugs, various sponge materials, fibrin glue, metallic coils, have been introduced and the endobronchial vascular occlusion coils for control of a bronchopleural fistula has been reported. 9, 10 In the present case, we attempted to close the fistula tract initially by injecting tissue adhesive glue mixed with radiopaque fluid, which is generally used by interventional radiology field, however, we did not succeed.