Thoracoscopic Management of Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumothorax,

J.K. Champion

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-1651
Year Produced: 1990
Length: 10 min.


The recent emergence of improvements in laparoscopic instrumentation and techniques has allowed expanded usage of this procedure in the thoracic cavity. We demonstrate the suture ligation of pleural blebs and an electrocautery pleurodesis in a 22 year old white male with a recurrent pneumothorax, via a modified thoracoscopic technique.