Conservative treatment for recurrent secondary spontaneous pneumothorax in patients with a long recurrence-free interval
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Conservative management of spontaneous pneumothorax.
In recent years many authors have advocated prompt active treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax in the belief that patients treated in this way recover more quickly and suffer fewer relapses (Lenox-Smith, 1962; Smith and Rothwell, 1962; Hamel, Briggs, and Schulkins, 1963). The material on which this attitude is based is very often related to hospital admissions only and does not reflect the ov...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Disease
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2072-1439,2077-6624
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2020.03.52