pain control is a major concern in post-thoracotomy patients. the current prospective randomized double-blind study was designed to evaluate the analgesic effects of morphine and fentanyl given interpleurally after posterolateral thoracotomy. thirty patients undergoing elective posterolateral thoracotomy in a teaching hospital in tehran were divided into 3 groups with equal number of patients. ...

Objectives: Thoracotomy causes intense postoperative pain which may become chronic. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)leads to less compared with thoracotomy. In this study, we analyzed scores in patients who underwent lungresections VATS or thoracotomy.Patients and Methods: Patients lung resections uniportal, biportal thoracotomy between May 2015– 2017 were included the study. Visual Analo...

Introduction: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is now commonly used for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. In the present study we compared the outcomes of this technique with those obtained by conventional thoracotomy.Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional stud, forty patients were enrolled into two groups: VATS (n=20) and thoracotomy (n=20). In both groups the blebs were resected ...

BACKGROUND Of all the postsurgical pain conditions, thoracotomy pain poses a particular therapeutic challenge in terms of its prevalence, severity, and ensuing postoperative morbidity. Multiple pain generators contribute to the severity of post-thoracotomy pain, and therefore a multimodal analgesic therapy is considered to be a necessary strategy. Along with opioids, thoracic epidural analgesia...

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is a standard treatment for lung cancer. This study retrospectively compared long-term outcomes after VATS lobectomy versus lobectomy via open thoracotomy for clinical stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS From July 2002 to June 2012, 160 patients were diagnosed with clinical stage IA NSCLC and underwent lobectomy. Of ...

herein, we present the case of a 45-year-old woman with pulsion and midesophageal diverticula, who had complaints of dysphagia and regurgitation. diagnosis was confirmed by endoscopy and barium swallow. the patient underwent right posterolateral thoracotomy with excision of diverticula and repair of the muscular layer along the site of diverticula. five days following the operation, barium swal...