Surgery for Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax with Chronic Lung Diseases.
Kazuhisa TanakaHidemi SuzukiTerunaga InageTakamasa ItoYuichi SakairiIchiro YoshinoPublished in: Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (2023)
The morbidity and recurrence were comparable between PSP and SSP cases with COPD, whereas these values were unfavorable in SSP cases with IP compared with PSP ones. Surgical intervention should be carefully considered in SSP patients with IP.