Thoracoscopic surgery and conventional open thoracotomy in metastatic lung cancer: A comparative clinical analysis of surgical outcomes

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 849-853

  Nakajima, J ^a   Takamoto, S ^a   Tanaka, M ^a   Takeuchi, E ^a   Murakawa, T ^a   Fukami, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Lung; Metastatic lung neoplasms; Pulmonary metastasis; Thoracic surgery; Thoracoscopy; Thoracotomy; Video assisted surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; CARCINOMA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034927603     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004640090005     Document Type: Article

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