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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, Mohammad Behgam Shadmehr, Cambyz Irajie, Mohammad Javad Yavari Barhaghtalab   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paravertebral block versus thoracic epidural for patients undergoing thoracotomy.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016
BACKGROUND Operations on structures in the chest (usually the lungs) involve cutting between the ribs (thoracotomy). Severe post-thoracotomy pain can result from pleural (lung lining) and muscular damage, costovertebral joint (ribcage) disruption and ...
J. Yeung, S. Gates, B. Naidu, Matthew J A Wilson, F. Gao Smith   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thoracoscopy vs thoracotomy for the management of metastatic osteosarcoma: A Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative Study

International Journal of Cancer, 2020
Complete surgical resection of pulmonary metastatic disease in patients with osteosarcoma is crucial to long‐term survival. Open thoracotomy allows palpation of nodules not identified on imaging but the impact on survival is unknown.
Timothy B. Lautz, Zishaan Farooqui, T. Jenkins, T. Heaton, J. Doski, Jo Cooke-Barber, A. Murphy, A. Davidoff, Sara A. Mansfield, Eugene S. Kim, Catherine J. Goodhue, Samuel M. Zuber, S. Vasudevan, M. LaQuaglia, N. Piché, Annie Le-Nguyen, J. Aldrink, M. Malek, Vei Shaun Siow, R. Glick, Barrie S. Rich, R. Meyers, Scott S. Short, A. Butter, R. Baertschiger, E. Fialkowski, R. Dasgupta   +26 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ultrasound-guided preoperative single-dose erector spinae plane block provides comparable analgesia to thoracic paravertebral block following thoracotomy: a single center randomized controlled double-blind study.

Annals of Translational Medicine, 2019
Background Thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) technique for thoracotomy has seen increased application. The erector spinae plane block (ESPB) technique is simpler to perform than TPVB.
Bin Fang, Zhaomin Wang, Xiaojing Huang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Outcomes following resuscitative thoracotomy for abdominal exsanguination, a systematic review

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background Resuscitative thoracotomy is a damage control procedure with an established role in the immediate treatment of patients in extremis or cardiac arrest secondary to cardiac tamponade however Its role in resuscitation of patients with abdominal ...
M. Hughes, Z. Perkins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chest pain caused by multiple exostoses of the ribs: A case report and a review of literature [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this paper is to report an exceptional case of multiple internal exostoses of the ribs in a young patient affected by multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE) coming to our observation for chest pain as the only symptom of an intra-thoracic ...
Calderaro, Cosma, Fabbri, Mattia, Ferretti, Andrea, Iorio, Carlo, Labianca, Luca, Mazza, Daniele, Montanaro, Antonello, Poggi, Camilla, Turturro, Francesco   +8 more
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Toracotomia em bloco em cães pré-medicados com acetilpromazina e anestesiados com tiopental sódico: efeitos sobre os gases sangüíneos e equilíbrio ácido-base En bloc thoracotomy in dogs premedicated with acetylpromazine and anesthetized with thiopental sodium: effects on blood gases and acid-base-balance

Ciência Rural, 1995
A medição dos gases sangüíneos foi realizada em cães submetidos à técnica de toracotomia em bloco. A medicação pré-anestésica constou de acetilpromazina administrada pela via intravenosa.
Amaury Regis de Moura, Sérgio Amaro Guimarães Fialho, Cláudio Corrêa Natalini, Daniel Roulin Stainki, Sonia Terezinha dos Anjos Lopes, Juan Thomás Wheeler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Precise navigation surgery of tumours in the lung in mouse models enabled by in situ fluorescence labelling with a killer-reporter adenovirus. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundCurrent methods of image-guided surgery of tumours of the lung mostly rely on CT. A sensitive procedure of selective tumour fluorescence labelling would allow simple and high-resolution visualisation of the tumour for precise surgical ...
Bouvet, Michael, Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi, Hoffman, Robert M, Kagawa, Shunsuke, Kishimoto, Hiroyuki, Miwa, Shinji, Urata, Yasuo, Yano, Shuya, Zhang, Yong   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Health‐related quality of life following total minimally invasive, hybrid minimally invasive or open oesophagectomy: a population‐based cohort study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
All patients operated for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to April 2018 were identified, and 246 patients were recruited to this population‐based nationwide Swedish study. The results show that longitudinal health‐related quality of life after minimally invasive oesophagectomy was similar to that of the open surgical approach.
F. Klevebro, J. H. Kauppila, S. Markar, A. Johar, P. Lagergren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Right anterolateral thoracotomy a minimally invasive approach to mitral valve replacement

Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research, 2013
Background: The objectives of this study were to analyze the results of the right anterolateral thoracotomy approach for primary mitral valve replacement with reference to length of incision, surgical exposure, mean cross-clamp time, mean bypass time ...
Farooq Ahmad Ganie, A G Ahangar, Zamir Ahmad Shah, G N Lone, Hafeezulla Lone, Mohd. Lateef Wani, Abdual Majeed Dar, Mohd Akbar Bhat, Shyam Singh, Syeed Whaid, Nadeem Ul Nazeer Kawoosa   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source