Related Experiment Videos
Video-assisted thoracoscopy in the evaluation of penetrating thoracic trauma
D A Waller1, A Hasan, N Bouboulis
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
The management of patients who present with penetrating thoracic trauma but are haemodynamically stable may be subjective and imprecise. We report our initial experience with the use of video-assisted thoracoscopy in a series of five patients in whom accurate assessment was achieved and unnecessary thoracotomy avoided.