Long-term follow-up of thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis for primary spontaneous pneumothorax [3]

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 598-599

  Steger, V ^a   Walles, T ^a   Walker, T ^a   Friedel, G ^a  

^a Schillerhoehe Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSING AGENT; TALC;

BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MEDIASTINUM; MORBIDITY; PERICARDIUM; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; TALC; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 38449097976     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00059307     Document Type: Letter

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