Treatment of primary and secondary spontaneous pneumothorax using videothoracoscopy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 108-112

  Andrés, Bruno ^a   Luján, Juan ^a   Robles, Ricardo ^a   Aguilar, José ^a   Flores, Benito ^a   Parrilla, Pascual ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Spontaneous pneumothorax; Videothoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031977107     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199804000-00005     Document Type: Article

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