Impact of Anastomotic Airway Complications After Lung Transplantation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Murthy, Sudish C ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Gildea, Thomas R ^b   Gonzalez Stawinski, Gonzalo V ^a   Feng, Jing ^a   Budev, Marie ^b   Mason, David P ^a   Pettersson, Gösta B ^a   Mehta, Atul C ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Allergy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TORSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447565906     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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