[Possible complications of transpleural neurotomy]

The occurrence of complications in course of thoracoscopic vegetative denervation has been found low in the author's analysis of his 2679 cases. There arose several small lung lesions with consecutive pneumothorax or tension pneumothorax, furthermore some events of emphysema of the skin, one bleeding of an intercostal artery, which was stopped under thoracotomy, one division of the thoracic duct, one thrombosis of the anterior spinal artery, one cardiac failure. On the other hand there could be avoided air embolism, Horner's syndrome, lesions of recurrent and phrenic nerve, damage on trachea, bronchial tree, oesophagus and big vessels.