Systematic node dissection by VATS is not inferior to that through an open thoracotomy: A comparative clinicopathologic retrospective study

Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 510-517

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Koyanagi, Tetsuya ^a   Ohsawa, Hisayoshi ^a   Mawatari, Tohru ^a   Nakashima, Shinji ^a   Takahashi, Noriyuki ^a   Sato, Hiroki ^a   Abe, Tomio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; PNEUMONECTOMY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26244449451     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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