Nd:YAG laser resection of lung cancer invading the airway as a bridge to surgery and palliative treatment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 995-998

  Venuta, Federico ^a   Rendina, Erino A ^a   De Giacomo, Tiziano ^a   Mercadante, Edoardo ^a   Francioni, Federico ^a   Pugliese, Francesco ^a   Moretti, Marco ^a   Coloni, Giorgio F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERIAL GAS; BLEEDING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAFETY; SPIROMETRY; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036796385     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03874-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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