Management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: Does cause matter?

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 344-348

  Noppen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chest drainage; Primary spontaneous pneumothorax; Talcage; Thoracoscopy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

TALC; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG BULLA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG SURGERY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; RANDOMIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 14244271991     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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