Outpatient management of postbiopsy pneumothorax with small-caliber chest tubes: Factors affecting the need for prolonged drainage and additional interventions

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 342-348

  Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Hicks, Marshall E ^a   Wallace, Michael J ^a   Ahrar, Kamran ^a   Madoff, David C ^a   Murthy, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Complications; Lung; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHEST TUBES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41049115573     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9250-z     Document Type: Article

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