The patient is placed lying on their side, and an S-shaped thoracotomy incision is made. The sixth rib is resected and the space between the lung and the chest cavity is dissected. The tumor is ...

Bleeding from the left hemithorax persisted because of stab injuries to the intercostal arteries, which were addressed through an anterolateral thoracotomy. Coagulopathy had developed because of ...

The operation for bleb resection can be done via mini-thoracotomy or thoracoscopy. The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows intentional collapse ...

As a whole, cocaine-associated electrocardiographic abnormalities are well described in the literature (primarily in the form of observational studies, small controlled studies and case reports ...

Eleven studies describing sinoatrial (SA) nodal, atrioventricular (AV) nodal or infra-Hisian conduction parameters in the setting of cocaine use were found. Fourteen studies and two case series ...