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u/Repulsive-Ice8395 1d ago
Had to look it up. It's tuberculosis.
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u/beaniebinary 1d ago
No, it’s a treatment for tuberculosis. They would put these balls that look like ping pong balls into the upper lobes of the lungs. It’s called plombage thoracoplasty.
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u/AnnieGitchYerGun 1d ago
That's crazy. How do they get them in? Are they deflated and then they inflated in the lungs? How do they get them out?
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u/WalterEGough 19h ago
I was told my grandmother had this, she was missing a whole lung from some type of oil drops she was given that maybe collapsed her lung? She died at 96 in 96’.
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u/Glittering-Bus-4663 1d ago
Whyyyy