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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Main Author: Ryo Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Surgery Research and Practice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7025793

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