Primary spontaneous pneumothorax: Towards outpatient treatment and abandoning chest tube drainage

Respiration

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-203

  Janssen, Julius ^a   Cardillo, Giuseppe ^b  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pleural disease; Pneumothorax; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RECURRENCE; THORACOSTOMY;

EID: 79960707988     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324268     Document Type: Article

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