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Muscle-sparing anterior thoracotomy for one-stage bilateral lung volume reduction operation

Published inThe annals of thoracic surgery, vol. 66, no. 2, p. 582-584;discussion584-5
Publication date1998
Abstract

Bilateral lung volume reduction produces significant clinical and physiologic improvement in selected patients with end-stage emphysema. Current surgical approaches consist of median sternotomy and video-assisted thoracoscopy. This report describes an alternate technique of single-stage, bilateral lung volume reduction using muscle-sparing anterior thoracotomy in 18 patients with severe lung emphysema.

Keywords
  • Humans
  • Methods
  • Pectoralis Muscles
  • Pneumonectomy/methods
  • Pulmonary Emphysema/surgery
  • Sternum/surgery
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DE PERROT, Marc Eugène Antoine, LICKER, Marc, SPILIOPOULOS, Anastase. Muscle-sparing anterior thoracotomy for one-stage bilateral lung volume reduction operation. In: The annals of thoracic surgery, 1998, vol. 66, n° 2, p. 582–584;discussion584–5. doi: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00479-2
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