The significance of thoracoscopic mechanical pleurodesis for the treatment of malignant pleural effusions

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, Supplement

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 28-32

  Crnjac, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Malignant pleural effusion; Palliative intervention; Thoracoscopic mechanical pleurodesis; VATS (video assisted thoracic surgery)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SPIROMETRY; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURODESIS; RECURRENCE; SPIROMETRY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3242800537     PISSN: 03005178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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