Major thoracic surgery in octogenarians: The video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) approach

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 632-635

  Koren, J P ^a   Bocage, J P ^a   Geis, W P ^a   Caccavale, R J ^a  

^a SAINT PETER S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Lung cancer; Pulmonary disease; Thoracic disease; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BIOPSY; CARCINOID; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECORTICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL RECORD; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTPATIENT; PERICARDIOTOMY; PLEURECTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037381509     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8953-0     Document Type: Article

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