Chinese Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery 2001;0(02):-

A comparison of therapeutic effect and cost between subaxillary minithoracotomy and video - assisted thoracic surgery(VATS) for treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax

Zhenyun SHEN ; Dandan LIU ; Zheng LIANG

Keywords

Subaxillary minithoracotamy Thoracoscopy Spontaneous pneumothorax Results Cost

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

0.05), respectively; 10 cases out of 12 cases performed SAMT and 26 cases out of 33 cases per- formed VATS were operated bullaectomy; the number of recurrence after operation was 2 in VATS and none in SAMT; the average operative cost was ￥ 806 ? 78 in SAMT and ￥ l808 + 447 in VATS(t = 7 .6,P