New Technology

A New Procedure for the Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax: The Cold Coagulation

By Marcello Carlo Ambrogi, MD, PhD and Alfredo Mussi, MD

Patients with recurrent or persistent spontaneous pneumothorax are treated thoracoscopically. Those with blebs or small bullae are generally managed by stapler resection of the lesions. We have recently experimented with a new device (Endo-Floating Ball) for the coagulation of blebs as an alternative to endostapler resection.

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