Relevance of intensive postoperative follow-up after surgery for non-small cell lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1185-1190

  Westeel, Virginie ^a,b   Choma, Didier ^a   Clément, François ^a   Woronoff Lemsi, Marie Christine ^a   Pugin, Jean François ^a   Dubiez, André ^a   Depierre, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033782875     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01731-8     Document Type: Article

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