Usefulness of Lung Perfusion Scintigraphy Before Lung Cancer Resection in Patients with Ventilatory Obstruction

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1828-1834

  Mineo, Tommaso C ^a   Schillaci, Orazio ^a   Pompeo, Eugenio ^a   Mineo, Davide ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33750086651     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.041     Document Type: Article

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