Comparison of short-term functional outcomes following unilateral and bilateral lung volume reduction surgery

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 890-895

  Kotloff, Robert M ^a   Tino, Gregory ^a   Palevsky, Harold I ^a   Hansen Flaschen, John ^a   Wahl, Peter M ^a   Kaiser, Larry R ^a   Bavaria, Joseph E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emphysema; Lung volume reduction surgery; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031956289     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.4.890     Document Type: Article

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