Evaluation of the clamshell incision for bilateral pulmonary metastases

International Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 262-265

  Shimizu, Junzo ^a,b   Oda, Makoto ^a   Morita, Katsuya ^a   Watanabe, Shunichi ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^a   Murakami, Shinya ^a   Watanabe, Yoh ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Kanazawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral thoracotomy; Clamshell incision; Median sternotomy; Multiple pulmonary metastases

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030728904     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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