Value of routine pre-operative chest X-ray in patients over the age of 40 years

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 279-281

  Ishaq, Mohammad ^a   Kamal, Rehana S ^a   Aqil, Mansoor ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; RISK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HEART; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0031262451     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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