Is surgery for multiple lung metastases reasonable? A total of 328 consecutive patients with multiple-laser metastasectomies with a new 1318-nm Nd:YAG laser

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1236-1242

  Rolle, Axel ^a   Pereszlenyi, Arpad ^a   Koch, Rainer ^b   Richard, Mathias ^a   Baier, Barbara ^a  

^a Center for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUBE; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33646823153     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.11.053     Document Type: Article

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