Fatal stroke after completion pneumonectomy for torsion of left upper lobe following left lower lobectomy

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a   Koletsis, Efstratios N ^a   Panagopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Prokakis, Christos ^a   Dougenis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TORSION;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; STROKE; TORSION ABNORMALITY;

EID: 34248354801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-1-25     Document Type: Article

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