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Pediatric Thoracic Surgery
Educational content from recorded physician discussions — not medical advice. Always talk to your child's care team about your child's situation.
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Changing the Paradigm for Management of Pediatric Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Simple Aspiration Test Predicts Need for Operation
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Purpose: Chest tube (CT) management for pediatric primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is associated with long hospital stays and high recurrence rates. To streamline management, we explored simple aspiration as a test to predict need for
article · Oct 2026
Thoracic empyema, application of video-assisted thoracic surgery and its current management
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Purpose Of Review: Pneumonia in children is frequently complicated by pleural effusions, which rarely progress to empyema. Appropriate clinical management depends on correctly diagnosing the stage of the disease process. Recently, increasin
article · Nov 2026
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