Chest wall implantation of lung cancer at the drainage tube site: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 666-668

  Sugi, Kazuro ^a   Nawata, Kouichi ^a   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^a   Kaneda, Yoshikazu ^a   Nawata, Sumihiko ^a   Oga, Atsunori ^a   Esato, Kensuke ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drainage tube; Implantation; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX WALL CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; IRRIGATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PNEUMONECTOMY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX;

EID: 0030691107     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02388228     Document Type: Article

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