Pulmonary artery reconstruction by a custom-made heterologous pericardial conduit in the treatment of lung cancer

Lung Cancer

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-243

  Galetta, Domenico ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Leo, Francesco ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Prosthesis; Pulmonary artery; Vascular

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGED; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY PROSTHESIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BOVINE PERICARDIAL PATCH; BRONCHOPLASTY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CUSTOM MADE BOVINE PERICARDIAL CONDUIT; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOPLASTY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY TUMOR; REVASCULARIZATION; SUTURE; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745621019     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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