Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Major Lung Resection Can Be Safely Taught to Trainees

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 416-419

  Wan, Innes Y P ^a   Thung, Kin Hoi ^a   Hsin, Michael K Y ^a   Underwood, Malcolm J ^a   Yim, Anthony P C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349148705     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.009     Document Type: Article

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