Management of the Second Episode of Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Decision Analysis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1843-1848

  Falcoz, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Binquet, Christine ^b   Clement, François ^b   Kaili, Djamel ^b   Quantin, Catherine ^b   Chocron, Sidney ^b   Etievent, Joseph Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 0345096407     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01324-9     Document Type: Article

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