title: Increased need for formal thoracotomies to manage chronic pneumothorax caused by the use of plastic chest tubes: a justification to expand laparoscopic surgery into the thorax.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lambert
mesh_terms: D015505:Chest Tubes; D006801:Humans; D010969:Plastics; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology*; D013908:Thoracotomy
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics