Surgical Management of Pneumothorax and Pleural Space Disease.

Surg Clin North Am

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208062, New Haven, CT 06520-8062, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2022

Pleural space diseases constitute a wide range of benign and malignant conditions, including pneumothorax, pleural effusion and empyema, chylothorax, pleural-based tumors, and mesothelioma. The focus of this article is the surgical management of the 2 most common pleural disorders seen in modern thoracic surgery practice: spontaneous pneumothorax and empyema.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.suc.2022.03.001DOI Listing

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