[Early and late results of surgical treatment in patients with primary mediastinal germ cell tumors].

A group of 37 patients--20 (54%) men and 17 (46%) women--aged 2-65, mean 31.6 years, was treated between 1978 and 1995 for different kinds of primary mediastinal germ cell tumours. In 14 (37.

[Repeated paracentesis and total parietal pleurectomy in treatment of patients with primary pneumothorax--late results].

Out of 235 patients discharged from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Silesian Medical Academy, after treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax between 1981 and 1993, 232 (98.7%) answered our questionnaire and so were included in the study. Mean follow-up time was 10.

[Repeated paracentesis and total pleurectomy in treatment of patients with primary pneumothorax--early results].

A group of 235 patients were treated between 1981 and 1993 for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. Immediate recovery was obtained in 150 (75%) out of 8 in whom drainage had been applied, and in a total of 79 who had been operated. Fifty of the remaining 52 patients with the first episode of pneumothorax, had repeated paracentesis with no complete lung expansion prior to operation, and 2 were referred to pleural cavity drainage.