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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:334
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

New technology

Invited commentary

Joseph B. Shrager, MD

Department of Surgery University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 4th Floor Silverstein 3400 Spruce St Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

(Email: joseph.shrager@uphs.upenn.edu; jshrag@mail.med.upenn.edu).

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Although this contribution by Ishikura and Kimura [1] has significant shortcomings with regard to the careful description of both experimental procedures and results, I believe the results are credible and that those results that are clearly interpretable are of considerable importance. The value of this article lies in the fact that it is the first to describe a series of pulmonary resections in which commercially available, soft, silastic thoracic drains are used for postoperative drainage rather than standard, more rigid thoracostomy tubes. These silastic drains have been studied in a randomized fashion in cardiac surgery with apparently equivalent drainage results . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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