Primary spontaneous pneumothorax: To pleurodese or not?

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9874, 2013, Pages 1252-1254

  Lee, Pyng ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINOCYCLINE; PETHIDINE; TETRACYCLINE;

BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOTE; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876177323     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60285-8     Document Type: Note

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