Pneumothorax: Experience with 1,199 patients

Chest

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1279-1285

  Weissberg, Dov ^b   Refaely, Yael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pleuroscopy; Pneumothorax; Spontaneous pneumothorax; Traumatic pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDER;

EID: 0034115362     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.117.5.1279     Document Type: Article

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