Bilateral pneumothorax: A retrospective analysis of 40 patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 817-821

  Sunam, Güven ^a   Gök, Mehmet ^a   Ceran, Sami ^a   Solak, Hasan ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bilateral pneumothorax; Spontaneous pneumothorax; Traumatic pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4944251674     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2819-0     Document Type: Article

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