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- S R Dobrovol'skiĭ, V K Popovich, N A Vasil'eva, and A S Burtsev.
- Khirurgiia (Mosk). 2007 Jan 1(5):32-8.
AbstractResults of surgical treatment of 154 patients with thorax injuries are analyzed. Most of the patients (93 ps, 60.4%) had penetrating wounds. X-ray examination remains the open most method of diagnosis. The pleural cavity drainage with prolonged aspiration was the main treatment method for the patients with closed thoracic trauma and open trauma without organs injury. Lethality was 7.8% among all the patients and 12.9% among ones with thoracic penetrating wounds. There were no postoperative lethal outcomes. The rate of postoperative complications was 22.7%. Videothoracoscopy and video-assisted mini-thoracotomy are effective methods for diagnosis and treatment, reduce the rate of postoperative complications and lethal outcomes, limit the indications to wide thoracotomy.
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