Closing the NETT on lung volume reduction surgery

Thorax

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 651-653

  Calverley, P M A ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; ERGOMETRY; EVALUATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0042622475     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.58.8.651     Document Type: Editorial

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