Functional comparison of unilateral versus bilateral lung volume reduction surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-327

  Argenziano, Michael ^a   Thomashow, Byron ^a   Jellen, Patricia A ^a   Rose, Eric A ^a   Steinglass, Kenneth M ^a   Ginsburg, Mark E ^a   Gorenstein, Lyall A ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0030770644     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00550-X     Document Type: Article

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