Background : Flail chest is a clinical condition observed in patients with blunt thorax trauma.
Surgical stabilization methods performed on selected patients shorten the durations of …

Background In this study, we aimed to analyze the risk factors of barotrauma in patients who
were followed in the intensive care unit due to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Pediatric age esophageal diseases are rare and complex clinical conditions. Treatment
options should be individually determined for the patient. The advances in the follow-up and …

Background/aim: Benign esophageal strictures are frequently encountered pathologies
occurring due to various reasons. Repeated dilatations may be needed, particularly in resistant …

Background/aim: Mediastinoscopy is an invasive procedure that is used in the diagnosis of
mediastinal diseases and in staging lung cancer. Tumor cell seeding during …

Catamenial pneumothorax, which is a rare cause of spontaneous pneumothorax, is defined
as a pneumothorax that starts at the onset of or within the first 72 hours of the menstruation …

Esophageal perforations are rare but highly fatal pathologies. This study aims to discuss the
treatment methods for esophageal perforations. Materials and methods: Twenty-two patients …

We aimed to analyze the learning process of the uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic
surgery (uVATS), the most up-to-date approach in VATS, to determine the learning curve cut-off …

… Care was taken to ensure that the dose of bupivacaine was < 2.5 mg/kg (ideal body weight).
Sensory block was evaluated every 5 min using a needle prick sensation (50mm long, 22G …

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree and size of pleural invasion in
non-small cell lung cancer patients and to compare its relationship with the survival time. …