ReviewAfrican journal of thoracic and critical care medicine2018
Thoracoscopy: The past, the present and the future! A personal journey.
Review in African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Global Health Challenges: Why the Four S's Are Not Enough.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Cardiothoracic surgery in South Africa: a history.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Review
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Abstract
Thoracoscopy, in my opinion, is underutilised in Africa, for a multiplicity of reasons. These include a lack of expertise, the perceived cost and difficulties in obtaining and maintaining equipment. The benefits, however, in improved surgery and decreased surgical pain and rapid return to productive work outweigh by far the so-called disadvantages. In my opinion, thorascopic techniques should be routine in all our academic departments. Our newly qualified thoracic surgeons should be trained in video-assisted thoracic surgery.
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