0 a cut into the wall of the chest done as part of an operation, or the process of doing this -- 胸廓切开术
The drawbacks could be: 1) high initial cost for video thoracoscopic instrumentation; and 2) the risk of emergency thoracotomy for major bleeding.
In the first three sheep the bioptome was introduced through a purse string incision in the main pulmonary artery at thoracotomy.
We performed 3 thoracotomies to control major chest bleeding (>300 ml/hr) and a pericardiectomy following three episodes of cardiac tamponade.
At 21 years of age, an emergency left thoracotomy was performed because of severe hemoptysis accompanied by severe arterial desaturation.
It is usually treated by ductal division through a left thoracotomy.
The ventral aspect of the heart was exposed by means of a transverse thoracotomy at the level of the fifth intercostal space.
Banding of the pulmonary trunk was performed through a left anterior thoracotomy.
The epicardial rhabdomyoma was resected through a left thoracotomy.
