Value of computed tomography of the lung in the management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax
| Autor: | Brad W. Warner, Warren W. Bailey, Ralph Shipley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Computed tomography Recurrence medicine Humans Recurrent pneumothorax Prospective Studies Bleb (cell biology) Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Respiratory disease Pneumothorax General Medicine Primary spontaneous pneumothorax respiratory system Prognosis medicine.disease Thoracostomy eye diseases respiratory tract diseases Surgery surgical procedures operative medicine.anatomical_structure Thoracotomy Evaluation Studies as Topic Female sense organs Radiology Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Surgery. 162:39-42 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9610 |
| Popis: | The treatment of patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax remains controversial, since recurrence and the ultimate need for thoracotomy [corrected] cannot be predicted. In the current study, computed tomography (CT) of the lung was performed prospectively on 26 consecutive patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax to determine whether the size and/or the number of apical blebs would correlate with recurrence and/or need for thoracotomy [corrected]. Both the number of blebs and the bleb score (calculated by the number of blebs multiplied by a numeric value assigned a range of bleb sizes) of the affected lung was significantly greater in patients with a history of recurrent pneumothorax and/or ultimate need for thoracotomy [corrected] as treatment. CT of the lung may be useful in predicting the natural history of pneumothorax. |
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