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Video-assisted thoracic surgery: Risks and benefits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Summary: Background: Thoracoscopy has been used throughout this century, especially in the treatment of pleural disease. The introduction of video-assistance and especially designed instruments such as stapling devices in 1992 led to a worldwide and ...
Gugger, M., Lardinois, D., Ris, H.
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Video-assisted right supradiaphragmatic thoracic duct ligation for non-traumatic recurrent chylothorax [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Chylothorax is an uncommon disorder with respiratory, nutritional and immunological manifestations. Surgical management is indicated in case of recurrence or failure after conservative treatment.
Christodoulou, Michel   +2 more
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Uniportal versus multiportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for spontaneous pneumothorax

open access: yesJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Multiportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (mVATS) is the standard approach for the surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax. However, uniportal VATS (uVATS) has emerged as an alternative aiming to minimize surgical morbidity.
Nicky Janssen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A 49 year old male with a giant pulmonary bulla--a case report and review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/OpenA 49 year old previously healthy smoker was diagnosed with a giant bulla in his right lung, following a history of dry cough, repeated upper airway infections
Dóra Lúðvíksdóttir   +3 more
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A rare presentation of aspergillus infection as empyema thoracis

open access: yesLung India, 2010
A 57-year-old diabetic and hypertensive man presented with a short history of fever, dry cough and right side chest pain. A chest radiograph showed right pleural based homogenous shadow in middle and lower zones with obliteration of right costo-phrenic ...
Goel Manoj   +4 more
doaj  

Surgical treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma: extrapleural pneumonectomy, pleurectomy/decortication or extended pleurectomy?

open access: yesJournal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology, 2015
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an asbestos-related disease with a dismal prognosis. Ethic, social, legal and economic parameters are implicated in its management. It is quite clear that multimodality therapy is necessary to improve long-term results but precise treatment schemes have not yet been equivocally accepted.
Panagiotis, Hountis   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Pleurectomy for recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax

open access: yesJournal of Thoracic Surgery, 1958
P A, THOMAS, P W, GEBAUER
openaire   +2 more sources

Should surgical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax be always thoracoscopic? [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2008
Rizwan Qureshi   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

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