Indications and developments of video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of lung cancer

Oncologist

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1205-1214

  Solli, Piergiorgio ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Thoracoscopy; VATS; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 36148950125     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.12-10-1205     Document Type: Review

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