Surgical Treatment in Spontaneous Pneumothorax

GÜVEN SADİ SUNAM, HASAN SOLAK, SAMİ CERAN, Mehmet Gök, Tunç Solak

  • Year : 1996
  • Vol : 12
  • No : 1
  •  Page : 71-76
408 patients with sontaneous pneumothorax were treated and 26 of them were performed sur-gical bleb excision and limited pleurectomy. The traditional treatments of primary spon-taneous pneumothorax include bed rest, tube tho-racostomy, toracoscopic surgery or bleb excission and parietal pleurectomy. In secondery pneumothorax, tube thoracostomy is used without waiting. If the respiratory functions do not improved by tube thoracostomy and air le-akage continues surgical treatment should be used since the patients whith secondary pnneumothorax have not good pulmonary capacity surgical tre-atment should he tried only is chosen cases.
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Surgical Treatment in Spontaneous Pneumothorax
, Vol. 12 (1)
Received : 15.10.1996, Accepted : 15.10.1996, Published Online : 14.10.2020
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