Surgical Treatment in Spontaneous Pneumothorax

SAMİ CERAN, GÜVEN SADİ SUNAM, Mehmet Gök, Tunç Solak, HASAN SOLAK

  • SAMİ CERAN: NECMETTİN ERBAKAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
  • GÜVEN SADİ SUNAM: SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
  • Mehmet Gök: Selçuk Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi
  • Tunç Solak: Selçuk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi
  • HASAN SOLAK: SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
  • Year : 1996
  • Vol : 12
  • Issue : 1
  •  Page : 71-76
408 patients with sontaneous pneumothorax were treated and 26 of them were performed sur-gical bleb excision and limited pleurectomy. The traditional treatments of primary spon-taneous pneumothorax include bed rest, tube tho-racostomy, toracoscopic surgery or bleb excission and parietal pleurectomy. In secondery pneumothorax, tube thoracostomy is used without waiting. If the respiratory functions do not improved by tube thoracostomy and air le-akage continues surgical treatment should be used since the patients whith secondary pnneumothorax have not good pulmonary capacity surgical tre-atment should he tried only is chosen cases.

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Selcuk Medical Journal
1996, Vol. 12 (1)
ISSN: 1017-6616
E-ISSN: 2149-8059
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