title: [Indications and results of surgical treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax].
abstract: Between 1973 and 1985, 107 thoracotomies were performed in cases of spontaneous pneumothorax in 100 patients. Only in 3 patients we found a primary pneumothorax. In relation to the basic illness, the gravity of accompanying diseases and the frequency of relapses, we employed an graduated concept of treatment: Pleurocentesis, thoracodrainage, thoracotomy. The indication for primary operation was established in 10 patients and for sternotomy in 3 cases of simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax. There was a low frequency of relapses (1 patient) in comparison with conservative treatment. The frequency of complications in total was judged to be low.
authors.affiliation: Thoraxchirurgische Abteilung, Bezirkskrankenhauses Magdeburg, DDR.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nicolai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Plate
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mokros
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013908:Thoracotomy
vernacular_title: Indikation und Ergebnisse der chirurgischen Behandlung des Spontanpneumothorax.