Male adolescents with contralateral blebs undergoing surgery for primary spontaneous pneumothorax may benefit from simultaneous contralateral blebectomies.
Chieh-Ni KaoShah-Hwa ChouMing-Ju TsaiPo-Chih ChangYu-Wei LiuPublished in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2021)
Although younger male PSP adolescents treated with surgery were more likely to have postoperative recurrences, the performance of simultaneous contralateral blebectomies in those receiving one-stage bilateral surgeries significantly reduced future contralateral recurrence without compromising patient safety.