Institutional report - Thoracic general: Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for primary spontaneous pneumothorax: Clinical and economic analysis in comparison to the traditional approach

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-66

  Salati, Michele ^a,b   Brunelli, Alessandro ^a   Xiumé, Francesco ^a   Refai, Majed ^a   Sciarra, Valeria ^a   Soccetti, Andrea ^a   Sabbatini, Armando ^a  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Costs; Pain; Pneumothorax; VATS

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL COST; INSTRUMENTATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; THORACOSCOPE; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPES;

EID: 39049159565     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.165712     Document Type: Article

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