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Non-Intubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Published on: May 26, 2023
[Video thoracoscopy and video-assisted thoracic surgery. An analysis of 303 consecutive cases]
M A Callejas Pérez1, X Baldó Padró, E Canalís Arrayás
1Servicio de Cirugía Torácica, Hospital Clínic i Provincial, Barcelona.
Objectives:
To present our experience in video thoracoscopy and video-assisted thoracic surgery from November of 1991 until November of 1997.
Patients And Methods:
303 endoscopic thoracic surgery procedures (210 males and 93 females with a mean age of 42.2 years) with the following indications: 151 spontaneous pneumothorax, 51 pulmonary biopsies, 50 pulmonary nodules, 15 mediastinal tumors, 13 pleuroparietal tumors, 8 pericardial windows and 15 thoracic sympathectomies.
Results:
Mean postoperative stay was of 5.5 days. The thoracotomy conversion was necessary in 32 cases (10.9%). The morbimortality has been: one parietal recidive of a tumor in the way of one of the trocars and one death of a patient to who was accomplished a pulmonary biopsy by diffuse pneumopathy.
Conclusions:
The video thoracoscopy and thoracic surgery are effective and sure technical options for diagnosis and treatment of various thoracic affections.
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