How should we manage the chest drainage after a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy?

A recent paper from Holbek et al . (1), published in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery , opens a room for interesting discussion about the management of chest drainage after minimally-invasive lobectomy.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Thoracic Disease

• Publication date

  2019-10-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.21037/JTD.2019.05.44PMID 31372255PMCID PMC6626790
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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