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Routine placement of an intercostal chest drain during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical lung biopsy unnecessarily prolongs in-hospital length of stay in selected patients☆☆☆

Lucy Satherley, Heyman Luckraz, Kandadai Rammohan, Mabel Phillips, Nihal Kulatilake, Peter O’Keefe

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery · 2009 · 44 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The routine use of an intercostal chest drain after VATS lung biopsy unnecessarily increases the length of hospital stay without reduction in the incidence of pneumothorax.

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