| Literature DB >> 8881733 |
D A Waller1, A Hasan, N Bouboulis, G N Morritt, J Forty.
Abstract
The management of patients who present with penetrating thoracic trauma but are haemodynamically stable may be subjective and imprecise. We report our initial experience with the use of video-assisted thoracoscopy in a series of five patients in whom accurate assessment was achieved and unnecessary thoracotomy avoided.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID： 8881733 PMCID： PMC2502924
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann R Coll Surg Engl ISSN： 0035-8843 Impact factor: 1.891