Diagnostic thoracoscopic lung biopsy: An outpatient experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1942-1947

  Chang, Andrew C ^a   Yee, John ^a   Orringer, Mark B ^a   Iannettoni, Mark D ^a   Demeester, Steven ^b   Shrager, Joseph B ^b   Miller, Daniel L ^b   Gasiorowski, Lukasz ^b   Rapo, Seppo E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0036897851     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04164-4     Document Type: Article

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