Outcome of medicare patients with emphysema selected for, but denied, a lung volume reduction operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 331-336

  Meyers, Bryan F ^a   Yusen, Roger D ^a   Lefrak, Stephen S ^a   Patterson, G Alexander ^a   Pohl, Mary S ^a   Richardson, Veronica J ^a   Cooper, Joel D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; MEDICARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031665199     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00499-8     Document Type: Article

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