Issue: 2011, Vol. 16, No. 2

Kolbashova Ю. Н., Borisov С. В., Poznansky С. В., Evtikhov Р. М.

ENDOSCOPIC SELECTIVE BRONCHOOCCLUSION IN THE TREATMENT FOR PYOPNEUMOTHORAX

Keywords

pyopneumothorax, bronchopleural fi stula, bronchoocclusion

Abstarct

The results of the treatment for 98 patients with pleura empyema complicated with bronchopleural fi stula by the developed method of endoscopic selective bronchoocclusion are under discussion. The application of this method of treatment for pneumothorax allows to achieve the recovery in more than 50% of patients.