[The diagnostic and curative strategy for spontaneous pneumothorax]

The article presents the authors' experiences with treatment of 292 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax. Results of the suction drainage (188 patients), thoracoscopy and talc pleurodesis (43 patients), videothoracoscopic surgical treatment and pleurodesis (61 patients) are compared. The proposed algorithm allowed to make recurrences 2.8% rarer, the indications for tracheotomy appeared in 1.7% of the patients.