Thoracoscore predicts midterm mortality in patients undergoing thoracic surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 883-887

  Chamogeorgakis, Themistocles P ^a   Connery, Cliff P ^b   Bhora, Faiz ^b   Nabong, Andy ^b   Toumpoulis, Ioannis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCORE; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL; TRACHEA;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34548846921     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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