Single injection Erector Spinae Plane block for vascular ring repair: Is a catheter required?
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2020 Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) blocks have been used successfully in adults to manage post-operative pain associated with thoracotomy. In pediatric patients, thoracotomy pain is often managed with multimodal analgesia and neuraxial or regional techniques ...
Cassandra Hoffmann +4 more
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A 15 year review of the causes of thoracotomy in Amirkola children’s hospital
Iranian Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2018 Introduction: A wide spectrum of pathologies can cause thoracotomy in the pediatric population. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of causes of thoracotomy in Amirkola Children’s Hospital.
Soheil Osia +2 more
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Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials [PDF]
, 2004 <b>Objectives</b> To determine if video assisted thoracic surgery is associated with better clinical outcomes than thoracotomy for three common procedures: surgery for pneumothorax, minor resections, and lobectomy.
Lewsey, J. +3 more
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Pseudotumors due to pulmonary infarction [PDF]
, 1963 The preferred treatment of pulmonary infarction is nonoperative when the diagnosis can be established. In the present study, five cases are described in which failure of resolution or growth of a radiographic density resulted in eventual thoracotomy and ...
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Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Open Thoracotomy vs. Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Single-center Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a spontaneous pneumothorax without underlying lung disease. The main goals of this study were to compare the outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and open thoracotomy in patients ...
Saadat Mehrabi +3 more
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Retropleural thoracotomy [PDF]
Neurosurgical Focus, 2001 Herniated thoracic discs, unlike their lumbar counterparts, are difficult to read and safely resect using traditional posterior approaches. Historically, the use of a laminectomy for thoracic disc resection has yielded poor clinical outcomes. Posterolateral and anterolateral approaches have become the standard surgical means of treating these lesions ...
P D, Angevin, P C, McCormick
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Clinical Case of Successful Surgical Treatment for Giant Cell Metastatic Lung Sarcoma
Креативная хирургия и онкология, 2022 Introduction. Sarcomas refer to a group of heterogeneous non-epithelial malignant tumors originating from connective tissue. These tumors are characterized by extremely aggressive local growth, relatively low incidence of lymphogenic metastases ...
G. A. Baksiyan +4 more
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Cancer Medicine, 2023 Background Thoracotomy is considered the standard surgical approach for the management of pulmonary metastases in osteosarcoma (OST). Several studies have identified the advantages of a thoracoscopic approach, however, the clinical significance of ...
Christopher Kuo +7 more
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Current tendencies in diagnostics and treatment of peripheral benign lung tumors
Вестник хирургии имени И.И. Грекова, 2022 The OBJECTIVE was to estimate clinical characteristics, diagnostic possibilities of computed tomography, minimally invasive methods of treatment of peripheral benign lung tumors.MATERIALS AND METHODS.
S. A. Plaksin, L. P. Kotelnikova
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Hepatocyte growth factor gene therapy reduces ventricular arrhythmia in animal models of myocardial ischemia. [PDF]
, 2005 It was recently reported that gene therapy using hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has the potential to preserve cardiac function after myocardial ischemia. We speculated that this HGF gene therapy could also prevent ventricular arrhythmia.
Aoki, Motokuni +7 more
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