Evaluation of Spontaneous Pneumothorax Surgeries: A 16-Year Experience in Japan
Background. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is the surgical procedure of choice for spontaneous pneumothorax due to its noninvasiveness and convenience. A higher recurrence rate with thoracoscopic bullectomy (TB) than that after traditional thoracotomy (TT) led us to adopt thoracoscopic double-...
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| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Surgery Research and Practice |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7025793 |