Pulmonary function after cardiac and thoracic surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-51

  Weissman, Charles ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 0034100709     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200002000-00008     Document Type: Review

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