Inoue N, Koshino T, Abe T
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo General Hospital of Hokkaido Railway Company, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 1999 Sep;52(10):864-7.
We report here two cases of bilateral synchronous pneumothorax treated by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The first case was a 15-year-old male and the second case was a 22-year-old male. Bilateral thoracoscopic surgery by using of endo-stapler was performed at one stage and Nd-YAG Laser ablation to both the emphysematous surroundings and multiple small blebs was added. This procedure is minimally invasive as well as effective for the treatment of bilateral synchronous pneumothorax.
