Persistent air-leak following pulmonary resection

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 529-539

  Rice, Thomas W ^a   Okereke, Ikenna C ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; MACROGOL;

BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MORBIDITY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

CHEST TUBES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUCTION; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 0036703318     PISSN: 10523359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1052-3359(02)00022-4     Document Type: Review

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