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 ...

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 ...

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?

Thoracotomy. They make a large cut (or “incision”) between your ribs in the side of your chest or your back. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). They make one to four small cuts in your chest.

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 ...

This model revealed 4-year survival rates of 68.6% with VATS lobectomy compared with 64.8% with thoracotomy lobectomy (P =.003), with a median follow-up of 2.3 years for surviving patients.

Treating Pleuropneumonia-Related Abscesses with Thoracotomy By Erica Larson, News Editor July 21, 2012 ...

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 ...

Thoracotomy was considered futile if disease recurred or the patient died within 12 months after surgery (Table 3), which was the case in 20% of the patients in the PET–CT group and 45% in the ...

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 ...