Improvement in pulmonary function and elastic recoil after lung-reduction surgery for diffuse emphysema

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 1095-1099

  Sciurba, Frank C ^a,b   Rogers, Robert M ^a   Keenan, Robert J ^a   Slivka, William A ^a   Gorcsan III, John ^a   Ferson, Peter F ^a   Holbert, John M ^b   Brown, Manuel L ^b   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG MECHANICS; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PRESSURE; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029982081     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199604253341704     Document Type: Article

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