Free pericardial fat pads can act as sealant for preventing alveolar air leaks

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2321-2324

  Matsumoto, Isao ^a   Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Oda, Makoto ^a   Tsunezuka, Yoshio ^a   Tamura, Masaya ^a   Kawakami, Kazuyuki ^a   Watanabe, Go ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; SEALANT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOG; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS AIR LEAK; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX DRAINAGE; TISSUE GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 28344450827     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.077     Document Type: Article

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