Open AccessIt is safe and feasible to omit the chest tube postoperatively for selected patients receiving thoracoscopic pulmonary resection: a meta-analysis
Author(s) -
Pengfei Li,
Cheng Shen,
Yanming Wu,
Yutian Lai,
Kun Zhou,
Guowei Che
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.75
Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , perioperative , confidence interval , cochrane library , chest tube , surgery , thoracoscopy , wedge resection , video assisted thoracoscopic surgery , resection , pneumothorax
To access the feasibility and safety of no chest tube (NCT) placement after thoracoscopic pulmonary resection.
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