Sonographic evaluation for peripheral pulmonary nodules during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 825-827

  Yamamoto, M ^a   Takeo, M ^a   Meguro, F ^a   Ishikawa, T ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER WEST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; Peripheral pulmonary nodules; Sonographic guidance; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0037738685     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-002-8900-0     Document Type: Article

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