Usefulness of videothoracoscopic intrapericardial examination of pulmonary vessels to identify resectable clinical T4 lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1563-1566

  Loscertales, Jesús ^a   Jiménez Merchán, Rafael ^a   Congregado Loscertales, Miguel ^a   Arenas Linares, Carlos ^a   Girón Arjona, Juan Carlos ^a   Tristan, Andrés Arroyo ^a   Ayarra, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036266385     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03396-9     Document Type: Article

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