Prevention, early detection, and management of complications after 328 consecutive extrapleural pneumonectomies

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 138-146

  Sugarbaker, David J ^a   Jaklitsch, Michael T ^a   Bueno, Raphael ^a   Richards, William ^a   Lukanich, Jeanne ^a   Mentzer, Steven J ^a   Colson, Yolonda ^a   Linden, Phillip ^a   Chang, Michael ^a   Capalbo, Leah ^a   Oldread, Elizabeth ^a   Neragi Miandoab, Siyamek ^a   Swanson, Scott J ^b   Zellos, Lambros S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

11; 14

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HIATUS HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REDUCTION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BOSTON; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042770917     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.02.021     Document Type: Article

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