Use of three-dimensional computed tomographic angiography of pulmonary vessels for lung resections

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 388-392

  Watanabe, Shun Ichi ^a,b   Arai, Kazunori ^a   Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Koda, Wataru ^a   Urayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Kurobe City Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037314630     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04375-8     Document Type: Article

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