Anatomic Thoracoscopic Lobectomy (ATL) without minithoracotomy: Preliminary experience

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-55

  Rossi, L ^a   Litwin, D E M ^b   Gowda, K ^a  

^a Saskatoon City Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anatomic thoracoscopic lobectomy; Minithoracotomy; Resectability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030051971     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-199602000-00012     Document Type: Review

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