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Thoracoscopic surgery for diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia special reference to medicoeconomical effect

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We compared thoracoscopic surgery (TS) and open thoracotomy for the diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia. Intraoperative blood loss and duration of postoperative chest drainage were significantly less with TS than with thoracotomy. The length of postoperative hospital stay and social insurance costs with TS was significantly less than with thoracotomy. These results show that TS for the diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia is superior to open thoracotomy in terms of surgical stress and cost.

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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Ryukyus University School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan

    Tomoharu Kuda, Naoji Nagamine, Jun Oshiro, Shinobu Matsubara, Mamoru Tamashiro, Hitoshi Sakuda, Yoshihiko Kamada, Yukio Kuniyoshi & Kageharu Koja

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  1. Tomoharu Kuda
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Kuda, T., Nagamine, N., Oshiro, J. et al. Thoracoscopic surgery for diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia special reference to medicoeconomical effect. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 46, 344–346 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03217753

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