Role of diffusing capacity in predicting complications after lung resection for cancer

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 391-394

  Santini, Mario ^a   Fiorello, A ^a   Vicidomini, G ^a   Di Crescenzo, V G ^a   Laperuta, P ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide lung diffusion capacity; Lung cancer; Operative risk; Pulmonary function test; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548783806     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-965326     Document Type: Article

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