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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 180, Issue 3, Pages 171-173Publisher
EXCERPTA MEDICA INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00448-7
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BACKGROUND: TO see whether video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) as 2-day surgery is a safe and cost-effective procedure, we retrospectively compared VATS as 2-day surgery with standard VATS. METHODS: From April 1994 to March 2000, 139 SP patients were operated on: 115 patients were operated on by means of standard VATS and 24 were treated by 2-day surgery. The parameters we compared were the postoperative complications, hospitalization cost, and relapses. RESULTS: Excepting that 2 of those selected for 2-day surgery required another hospitalization, short-term complications were considered to be similar for the two groups. The median economic cost of 2-day surgery was about $5,822 US dollars and was lower than that of standard VATS. The difference in the recurrence rate between the two groups was not significant. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that VATS as 2-day surgery is a safe and cost-effective procedure. Am J Surg. 2000;180:171-173. (C) 2000 by Excerpta Medica, Inc.
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