title: [Factors favoring the choice of classical surgery for the treatment of recurrent idiopathic pneumothorax].
abstract: We report 3 cases of recurrent idiopathic pneumothorax treated first by video-surgery then by classical surgery. These cases illustrate the difference in hospital stay and patient satisfaction, which is not always in favor of video-surgery. We also examine our personal experience with a series of 480 cases of pneumothorax treated by surgery, reporting the length of hospital stays and work stoppage. Delays were short with classical surgery and the recurrence rate was very low. In our opinion, the low cost and low rate of re-operations warrants the use of classical surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie thoracique, Hôpital Tenon, Paris.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bazelly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D013908:Thoracotomy