A thoracotomy is when a surgeon goes between your ribs to get to your heart, lungs, or esophagus to diagnose or treat an illness. It's a major operation, and doctors usually don’t use it if ...

Porunai Hospitals, a multi-speciality hospital, puts Tirunelveli in the spotlight with the successful completion of the ...

开胸验肺 (kāixiōng yànfèi): thoracotomy Incision into the chest cavity in preparation for lung surgery. This painful procedure was immortalized in Chinese Internet discourse in 2009, when ...

Thoracotomy is often a last-ditch effort when trying to resuscitate a patient who has suffered trauma. What are risks vs benefits of attempting this procedure?

Emergency Thoracotomy for Massive Spontaneous Hemopneumothorax Authors: Mark H. Williams, M.D., John C. Carmen, M.D., and David M. Seymour, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published November 25, 1954 ...

The same should be true for minimally invasive resections for stage I lung cancer. It is time to recognize that a thoracotomy and lobectomy for routine early-stage lung cancer can no longer be ...

Chronic post-thoracotomy pain syndrome is defined as pain that recurs or persists along a thoracotomy incision for at least 2 months following surgery. It can occur in more than 50% of cases. 1 ...

Chronic post-thoracotomy pain syndrome is defined as pain that recurs or persists along a thoracotomy incision for at least 2 months following surgery. It can occur in more than 50% of cases. 1 ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to evaluate survival outcomes among 601 patients who experienced TCA and underwent prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (median age, 25 years ...

The objective of postoperative care after thoracotomy is to enable patients to resume the normal activities of daily living, to prevent postoperative complications, reduce the length of hospital stay ...