Endothoracic sonography with color Doppler availability during video assisted thoracic surgery (videothoracoscopic operative staging with ultrasound color Doppler) for lung cancer staging

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 816-819

  Menconi, G F ^a   Ambrogi, M C ^a   Melfi, F M A ^a   Dini, P ^a   Davini, F ^a   Goletti, O ^a   Roggi, G ^b   Angeletti, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CAMPO DI MARTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Color doppler; Lung cancer; Sonography; Staging; TNM; VATS

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CAVA VEIN; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENAE CAVAE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032089350     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900720     Document Type: Article

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