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[Pneumothorax in neonates and infants]
J Teixidor de Otto1, J A Zapico, F Rivilla
1Servicio de Cirugía Infantil Hospital Universitario Covadonga, Oviedo/Spanien.
Langenbecks Archiv Fur Chirurgie. Supplement II, Verhandlungen Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Kongress
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Pneumothorax in newborns and infants can have different etiologies: alveolar disruption following mechanic ventilation or reanimation, surgery for congenital diaphragmatic hernia or esophagus atresia, staphylococcal pneumonia, or thoracic traumas. We studied 105 cases of pneumothorax (96 newborns) treated in our hospital during the last 15 years. Pleural puncture with drainage and antimicrobial therapy were the treatments of choice. Due to early diagnosis and treatment of the pneumothorax and concomitant anomalies mortality was reduced to 17.4%.