[Thoracic retraction after chemical pleurodesis by video-assisted thoracoscopy for spontaneous juvenile pneumothorax].

To the Editor: When video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) is used to treat spontaneous pneumothorax (SP), the goal is to eliminate the lesions that caused the air leak and to perform pleurodesis to minimize recurrence. In our facility, iodine in hydroalcoholic solution has been used to treat primary SP since 1993. The only important postoperative complication has been the recurrence of pneumothorax (in 6.2% of cases). We report the first case in our experience of hemithoracic retraction after VATS and instillation of a chemical agent— in this case a hydroalcoholic solution of povidone iodine.