Chylothorax is a life-threatening clinical entity. Traditional surgical management for cases refractory to conservative treatment is thoracic duct ligation through a right open thoracotomy or closure of the site of duct laceration through an open thoracotomy. We report herein two patients with left chylothorax successfully treated by supradiaphragmatic thoracic duct (STD) ligation through left-...

This video demonstrates a unique case of an aorto-aortic anastomotic pseudoaneurysm treated with complete custom endovascular approach in patient who was very high risk for redo open thoracotomy. eyJraWQiOiI4ZjUxYWNhY2IzYjhiNjNlNzFlYmIzYWFmYTU5NmZmYyIsImFsZyI6IlJTMjU2In0.eyJzdWIiOiJmZjlkZTIyZDg0ZTk0OTUzOWMwNmQ5NWM3OGE4NjQxZSIsImtpZCI6IjhmNTFhY2FjYjNiOGI2M2U3MWViYjNhYWZhNTk2ZmZjIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg4N...

BACKGROUND There are several studies reporting high success rates for surgical and nonsurgical treatments of empyema separately. The aim of current retrospective cohort study is to find the best treatment in low socio-economic areas. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 149 patients were treated in the referring hospital from January 2002 to December 2008. The current retrospective cohort study wa...

Chronic chest pain is a common complication following thoracotomy, which is generally attributed to intercostal neuritis or neuralgia. Response to medical treatment is poor. We report a case of persistent chest pain following open lung biopsy, which was found to result from lung herniation, a rare, but surgically correctable complication of thoracotomy. Since lung herniation may be easily overl...

Background: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a standard primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) procedure. However, its high recurrence rate compared to open thoracotomy problem. Therefore, various methods prevent have been developed. The present study investigated the risk factors for postoperative of PSP after VATS.

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is becoming increasingly popular for lung resection in some centers. However, the issue of whether VATS or open thoracotomy is better remains controversial. We compared outcomes of open and VATS lobectomy in a national database. METHODS Using the 2004 and 2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, we identified 13,619 discharge records of...

OBJECTIVES We described the treatment of dehiscence of thoracotomy incisions in patients who underwent thoracic surgery in the present study. METHODS Twenty-four patients with either partial or complete dehiscence of their thoracotomy incisions were included in the study from 2005 to 2010. The patients were evaluated regarding their age, sex, indication for thoracotomy, and surgical approache...