Axillary thoracotomy versus videothoracoscopy for the treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 417-420

  Freixinet, Jorge L ^a   Canalís, Emilio ^b   Juliá, Gabriel ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^a   Santana, Norberto ^a   De Castro, Felipe Rodriguez ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

11

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY THORACOTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAPSE; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOTHORACOSCOPY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; AXILLA; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242798794     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.11.038     Document Type: Article

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