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Expert consensus on spontaneous ventilation video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in primary spontaneous pneumothorax (Guangzhou)

Jianxing He, Jun Liu, Chengchu Zhu, Tianyang Dai, Kaican Cai, Zhifeng Zhang, Chao Cheng, Kun Qiao, Xiang Liu, Guangsuo Wang,

Annals of Translational Medicine · 2019 · 17 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) has an estimated incidence ranging from 17–24/100,000 and 1–6/100,000 among males and females, respectively (1,2). It usually occurs in tall thin individuals between 10–30 years of age, especially smokers (3).

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