title: [Repeated paracentesis and total parietal pleurectomy in treatment of patients with primary pneumothorax--late results].
abstract: Out of 235 patients discharged from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Silesian Medical Academy, after treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax between 1981 and 1993, 232 (98.7%) answered our questionnaire and so were included in the study. Mean follow-up time was 10.4 years. No recurrence of the disease was reported by any of 79 patients who had been treated by surgical procedure/thoracotomy plus pleurectomy/, but 21 (14.3%) out of 147 treated by paracentesis reported a recurrence of pneumothorax. In 17 patients the recurrence was the first-time case, in 3 the second-time, in 1 the third-time. Out of 232 patients, 10 (4.3%) had a recurrence of pneumothorax on the opposite side. Achieving expansion of the lung, 80% of the patients reported no problems at all. Only 6 (2.6%) of the whole group stated they could no longer work in their profession because of the pneumothorax they had suffered in the past.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Chirurgii Klatki Piersiowej Slaskiej, Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mariusz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jacek
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marek
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kazimierz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019152:Paracentesis; D010994:Pleura / Q000601:surgery*; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D013908:Thoracotomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Powtarzane nakłucia i całkowita pleurektomia ścienna w leczeniu chorych z pierwotna samoistna odma opłucnej--wyniki odległe.