Spontaneous pneumothorax: Time to rethink management?

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 578-588

  Bintcliffe, Oliver J ^a   Hallifax, Rob J ^b   Edey, Anthony ^c   Feller Kopman, David ^d   Lee, Y C Gary ^e   Marquette, Charles H ^f   Tschopp, Jean Marie ^g   West, Douglas ^h   Rahman, Najib M ^b   Maskell, Nick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

^g Centre Valaisan de Pneumologie   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HEIMLICH VALVE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PLEURODESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALVE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WATCHFUL WAITING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY PREVENTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943171035     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00220-9     Document Type: Review

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