Video-assisted thoracoscopic major pulmonary resections: Technical aspects, personal series of 259 patients, and review of the literature

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1551-1558

  Roviaro, G ^a   Varoli, F ^b   Vergani, C ^a   Maciocco, M ^a   Nucca, O ^b   Pagano, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b San Giuseppe Hospital AFaR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Lung cancer; Minimally invasive surgery; Thoracoscopy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR SURGERY; METASTASIS; ONCOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144543802     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-6006-6     Document Type: Review

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