Commentary


Surgery for primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Christophoros N. Foroulis

Abstract

I read with great interest the innovative technical article published recently in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery by Lin et al. (1). The authors of the above mentioned article propose to access the pleural space in order to perform bullectomy/pleurodesis for primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) through two small periareolar incisions with the patient in a semi-sitting position.

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