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Editorial
. 2019 Mar;11(Suppl 3):S370-S375.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.45.

Ultimate management of post thoracotomy morbidities: a set of surgical technique and peri-operative precautions

Federico Raveglia  1 , Marco Scarci  2 , Ugo Cioffi  3 , Alessandro Baisi  1   3
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Editorial

Ultimate management of post thoracotomy morbidities: a set of surgical technique and peri-operative precautions

Federico Raveglia et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Mar.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Insertion of PC during thoracotomy as presented by Raveglia et al. at 93 AATS Annual Meeting, May 4–8, 2013, Minneapolis, MN, USA. (A) needle insertion through the chest wall; (B) catheter passage into the pleural cavity; (C) extrapleural pocket tunnelization; (D) catheter positioning under parietal pleural; (E) catheter taping on the skin. PC, paravertebral catheter.
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