Prediction of the postoperative pulmonary function and complication rate in elderly patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 860-865

  Haraguchi, Shuji ^a   Koizumi, Kiyoshi ^a   Hatori, Nobuo ^a   Akiyama, Hirohiko ^a   Mikami, Iwao ^a   Kubokura, Hirotoshi ^a   Tanaka, Shigeo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly patient; Postoperative respiratory complications; Prediction of postoperative pulmonary function; Primary lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0034763172     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950170023     Document Type: Article

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