Journal of Practical Medicine  2003;442(2):87-89

Remarks on 36 patients with spontaneous hydropneumothorax treated by endoscopic surgery

Dang Ngoc Hung

Keywords

Pneumothorax

Country

Viet Nam

Language

Vietnamese

Abstract

36 patients with spontaneous hydropneumothorax treated in the Hospital 103. Study concerned on general indices, age, gender, propesion, BMI, smoking habit, alcolism, onset point, chronic pathology of lung, clinical signs, the development of disease, functional symptoms - dyspnea, pain of chest; physical symptoms - Guilliard's trial; parachimical examinations, conventionalchest X ray. CT scanning has a high value in classication of pneumothorax lavel and in determination of the causes. Endoscopic of the lung membrane cavity has also therapeutic role. The method is safe and efficacious with few complication