Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Lobectomy With Bronchoplasty for Lung Cancer: Initial Experience and Techniques

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 191-195

  Nakanishi, Kozo ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLASTY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BRONCHI; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; SUTURES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 34250336575     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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