Role of Video Assisted Thoracoscopy Surgery for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax

Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) have promising role in the management of spontaneous pneumothorax not only in young patients (pt) with apical blebs but also in elder pt having emphysema. Objective: To evaluate the out come of VATS as compare to conservative and open Thoracotomy for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax and to evaluate various parameters in terms of results. Materials and Methods: A literature review was performed using Springer link, Bmj, Journal of MAS and major general search engines like Google, MSN, Hiwire press and Yahoo etc. The following search terms were used VATS, spontaneous pneumothorax, cost effeteness of VATS uniport versus three port, etc. Criteria for selection of literature were the number of cases [excluded if less than 20], methods of analysis [statistical or non statistical], operative procedure [only universally accepted procedures were selected] and the institution where the study was done