Salvage for Unsuccessful Aspiration of Primary Pneumothorax: Thoracoscopic Surgery or Chest Tube Drainage?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1908-1913

  Chen, Jin Shing ^a   Hsu, Hsao Hsun ^a   Tsai, Kung Tsao ^a   Yuan, Ang ^a   Chen, Wen Jone ^a   Lee, Yung Chie ^a  

^a Division of Cardiovascular Surgery   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHEST TUBES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REOPERATION; SUCTION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43849112318     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.038     Document Type: Article

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