Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management

Vasileios Leivaditis; Sofoklis Mitsos; Konstantinos Grapatsas; Francesk Mulita; Athanasios Papatriantafyllou; Konstantinos Tasios; Elias Liolis; Andreas Antzoulas; Dimitrios Litsas; Panagiotis Dimitrios Papadopoulos; George Theofanis; Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos; Ioannis Panagiotopoulos; Periklis Tomos; Dimitrios Schizas; Manfred Dahm

doi:10.5114/kitp.2026.160550

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Letter to the Editor

Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management

Vasileios Leivaditis

¹

,

Sofoklis Mitsos

²

,

Konstantinos Grapatsas

³

,

Francesk Mulita

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,

Athanasios Papatriantafyllou

¹

,

Konstantinos Tasios

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,

Elias Liolis

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,

Andreas Antzoulas

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,

Dimitrios Litsas

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,

Panagiotis Dimitrios Papadopoulos

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,

George Theofanis

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,

Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos

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,

Ioannis Panagiotopoulos

¹¹

,

Periklis Tomos

²

,

Dimitrios Schizas

¹²

,

Manfred Dahm

¹

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Attikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia – Unit of Aigio, Greece
John Radcliffe Hospital Emergency Department, University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, UK
Department of Oncology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Lamia, Greece
Department of Surgery, Spital Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland
Department of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, Greece
First Department of Surgery, Laikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2026; 23 (1): 76–80

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2026.160550

Online publish date: 2026/04/04

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AMA

Leivaditis V, Mitsos S, Grapatsas K, et al. Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2026;23(1):76-80. doi:10.5114/kitp.2026.160550.

APA

Leivaditis, V., Mitsos, S., Grapatsas, K., Mulita, F., Papatriantafyllou, A.,  & Tasios, K. et al. (2026). Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 23(1), 76-80. https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2026.160550

Chicago

Leivaditis, Vasileios, Sofoklis Mitsos, Konstantinos Grapatsas, Francesk Mulita, Athanasios Papatriantafyllou, Konstantinos Tasios,  and Elias Liolis et al. 2026. "Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management". Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 23 (1): 76-80. doi:10.5114/kitp.2026.160550.

Harvard

Leivaditis, V., Mitsos, S., Grapatsas, K., Mulita, F., Papatriantafyllou, A., Tasios, K., Liolis, E., Antzoulas, A., Litsas, D., Papadopoulos, P., Theofanis, G., Nikolakopoulos, K., Panagiotopoulos, I., Tomos, P., Schizas, D.,  and Dahm, M. (2026). Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 23(1), pp.76-80. https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2026.160550

MLA

Leivaditis, Vasileios et al. "Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management." Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, vol. 23, no. 1, 2026, pp. 76-80. doi:10.5114/kitp.2026.160550.

Vancouver

Leivaditis V, Mitsos S, Grapatsas K, Mulita F, Papatriantafyllou A, Tasios K et al. Spontaneous pneumothorax in fibrotic silicosis: lessons from surgical management. Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2026;23(1):76-80. doi:10.5114/kitp.2026.160550.

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