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Table 2 Complications of therapy

From: Chest trauma experience over eleven-year period at al-mouassat university teaching hospital-Damascus: a retrospective review of 888 cases

Morbidity

Number of cases

Percentage (%)

Prolonged air leak

39

4.4

Clotted Hemothorax

15

1.7

Atelectasis

7

0.8

Pneumonia

5

0.56

Empyema

5

0.56

ARDS

3

0.33

Surgical bleeding

2

0.22

Peptic ulcer

2

0.22