ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2021
A systematic review and meta-analysis of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery treating spontaneous pneumothorax.
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- Factors influencing recurrence in patients operated for primary spontaneous pneumothorax.Turk gogus kalp damar cerrahisi dergisi · 2026Article
- A Practical Approach to Pneumothorax Management.Pulmonary therapy · 2025Article
- Risk factors for the recurrence of primary spontaneous pneumothorax after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in patients younger than 40 years.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Cold coagulation in thoracoscopic treatment of primary pneumothorax: a comparison with apicectomy.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2023Article
- Thoracoscopy for Spontaneous Pneumothorax.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- [Surgical management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax. A national survey of the Emerging Thoracic Surgery Group of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR)].Open respiratory archivesArticle
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Abstract
backgroundWith the adoption of high-tech thoracoscopic surgical instruments, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has gradually replaced traditional thoracotomy and is used in the clinical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax.
methodsThe composite logic retrieval and Boolean logic retrieval methods were adopted for this meta-analysis. Databases such as PubMed, Medline, Cochrane Library, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, and Google Scholar were searched using the combination of search terms "Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery", "spontaneous pneumothorax", and "thoracotomy". Literatures which used video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for spontaneous pneumothorax as the experimental group were screened. The software RevMan 5.3 provided by the Cochrane system was employed for meta-analysis.
resultsA total of 12 studies were included. After the meta-analysis, heterogeneity testing of the operation time in 8 studies showed that Tau DISCUSSION: This meta-analysis confirmed that VATS for spontaneous pneumothorax is better than other surgical methods.
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