Disadvantages of muscle-sparing thoracotomy in patients with lung cancer

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 551-555

  Sugi, Kazuro ^a   Nawata, Sumihiko ^a   Kaneda, Yoshikazu ^a   Nawata, Kouiti ^a   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^a   Esato, Kensuke ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PAIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0029934709     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900085     Document Type: Article

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