Video-Assisted Lobectomy in Elderly Lung Cancer Patients

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-22

  Koizumi, Kiyoshi ^a   Haraguchi, Shuji ^a   Hirata, Tomomi ^a   Hirai, Kyoji ^a   Mikami, Iwao ^a   Fukushima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Kubokura, Hirotoshi ^a   Okada, Daisuke ^a   Akiyama, Hirohiko ^b   Tanaka, Shigeo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Lung cancer; Performance status; Pulmonary function; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THORAX SURGERY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY; VITAL CAPACITY; ARTICLE; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036356803     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02913481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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