Endoscopic treatment of postoperative bronchopleural fistula: Experience with 45 cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 923-927

  Hollaus, Peter H ^a   Lax, Franz ^a   Janakiev, Dan ^a   Lucciarini, Paolo ^a   Katz, Elfi ^a   Kreuzer, Alois ^a   Pridun, Nestor S ^a  

^a Pulmologisches Zentrum   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ENDOSCOPY; FISTULA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032167824     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00589-X     Document Type: Article

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