Chroma,

Have you seen this? Seems the results are good, if only short lasting.

http://www.paulchristomd.com/wp-cont...OSfulltext.pdf

And while on the topic of surgery / and avoiding the rib resection.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966747/

Sanders (the supposed leading doc) suggests there is no difference in success (or failure) rates whether you remove it or not. I'd be more apt to keep it in if I could. Less changes of complications or a collapsed long.