Treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax: Why not simple talc pleurodesis by medical thoracoscopy?

Respiration

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 108-111

  Tschopp, Jean Marie ^a   Bolliger, C T ^b   Boutin, C ^c  

^a Centre Valaisan de Pneumologie   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TALC;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0034000846     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029475     Document Type: Short Survey

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