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Background and objective At present, an ultrafine chest tube combined with a traditional thick tube were often used after pulmonary uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (U-VATS).
Lei CHEN+4 more
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The Right Time for Chest Tube Removal in the Patient with Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review
Background: Chest tube insertion is recommended after cardiac surgery, and inserted annually for a large number of these patients. In addition to its benefits, the chest tube may have risks that are mismanaged.
Abbas Heydari+2 more
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OOOE: Only-One-Object-Exists Assumption to Find Very Small Objects in Chest Radiographs [PDF]
The accurate localization of inserted medical tubes and parts of human anatomy is a common problem when analyzing chest radiographs and something deep neural networks could potentially automate. However, many foreign objects like tubes and various anatomical structures are small in comparison to the entire chest X-ray, which leads to severely ...
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Is chest tube drainage necessary after subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy?
Background Subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy has been increasingly performed in recent years. This study aimed to assess the differences in outcomes between subxiphoid thoracoscopic thymectomy with and without chest tube drainage.
Jiaduo Li+3 more
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Chest tube tracks may simulate normal structures or pathology. This article will help the radiologist to understand their formation and to recognize them as iatrogenic shadows.
D M Panicek+4 more
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Tube Thoracostomy (Chest Tube) Removal in Traumatic Patients: What Do We Know? What Can We Do? [PDF]
Chest tube (CT) or tube thoracostomy placement is often indicated following traumatic injuries. Premature movement of the chest tube leads to increased hospital complications and costs for patients.
Shahram Paydar+10 more
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Background Previous studies have provided initial data suggesting that small-bore (SB, ≤ 14Fr) chest tubes have the same efficacy as large-bore (LB, > 14 Fr) chest tubes for acute hemothorax (HTX), but data continue to be lacking in the setting of ...
A. Orlando+8 more
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Diagnostic value of routine chest tube tip culture in surgery for noninfectious lung disease
Background Evaluation of the diagnostic value of routine chest tube tip culture for detection of postoperative infection after surgery for noninfectious lung disease.
Martijn van Schelt+3 more
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Attention-based Saliency Maps Improve Interpretability of Pneumothorax Classification [PDF]
Purpose: To investigate chest radiograph (CXR) classification performance of vision transformers (ViT) and interpretability of attention-based saliency using the example of pneumothorax classification. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, ViTs were fine-tuned for lung disease classification using four public data sets: CheXpert, Chest ...
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Background To evaluate the effect of tract embolization (TE) with gelatin sponge slurries during a percutaneous lung biopsy on chest tube placement and to evaluate the predictive factors of chest tube placement.
Rémi Grange+9 more
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