Influence of age on operative mortality and long-term survival after lung resection for bronchogenic carcinoma

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 419-422

  De Perrot, M ^b   Licker, M ^b   Reymond, M A ^b   Robert, J ^b   Spiliopoulos, A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Age; Lung carcinoma; Lung surgery; Operative mortality; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032881757     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3003.1999.14b29.x     Document Type: Article

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