Extended indications for lung volume reduction surgery in advanced emphysema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1588-1597

  Argenziano, Michael ^a   Moazami, Nader ^a   Thomashow, Byron ^a   Jellen, Patricia A ^a   Gorenstein, Lyall A ^a   Rose, Eric A ^a   Weinberg, Alan D ^a   Steinglass, Kenneth M ^a   Ginsburg, Mark E ^a,b  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys and S ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SURVIVAL RATE; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0030560602     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)00886-7     Document Type: Article

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