Efficacy of a pedicled pericardial fat pad fixed with fibrin glue on postoperative alveolar air leakage

Surgery Today

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-28

  Yoshimura, Masahiro ^a   Tsubota, Noriaki ^a   Matsuoka, Hidehito ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air leak; Fibrin glue; Lung surgery; Pericardial fat pad; Postoperative complication

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 0036161369     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s595-002-8108-z     Document Type: Article

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