Clinical Study
Evaluation of Spontaneous Pneumothorax Surgeries: A 16-Year Experience in Japan
Table 2
Mean operating time and the blood loss during each of the 3 operating procedures.
| | | Open thoracotomy () | Thoracoscopic bullectomy
() | Thoracoscopic loop ligation
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| | Operation time (minutes) | | | | | Mean (min., max.) | 118.37 (42, 201) | 86.00 (40, 216) | 61.32 (18, 198) | | Bleeding (mL) | | | | | Mean (min., max.) | 62.34 (1, 620) | 9.14 (1, 101) | 5.04 (1, 103) |
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: number of sides.
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