Pathogenesis and treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: An overview

Respiration

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-438

  Noppen, Marc ^a   Baumann, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube drainage; Manual aspiration; Primary spontaneous pneumothorax; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASPIRATION; BULLECTOMY; CATHETER; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GAUZE ABRASION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; PRIMARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL STAPLING; THORACOSCOPIC TALC POUDRAGE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RECURRENCE; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0141426775     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072911     Document Type: Review

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