Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary nodules: Rationale for preoperative computed tomography-guided hookwire localization

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 429-433

  Ciriaco, Paola ^a   Negri, Giampiero ^a   Puglisi, Armando ^a   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Del Maschio, Alessandro ^a   Zannini, Piero ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hookwire; Pulmonary nodules; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PLEURA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1542613939     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2003.11.036     Document Type: Article

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