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Videothoracoscopic surgical approach for spontaneous pneumothorax: review of the pertinent literature

Spontaneous pneumothorax is usually caused by the rupture of subpleural blebs/bullae in the underlying lung and is one of the most common elective applications of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). VATS has been used as an alternative to thoracotomy in the treatment of spontaneous pneumoth...

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Autor principal: Sakurai, Hiroyuki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18644115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-23