Wedge Resection and Brachytherapy for Lung Cancer in Patients With Poor Pulmonary Function

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  McKenna Jr , Robert J ^a   Mahtabifard, Ali ^a   Yap, Johnnie ^a   McKenna III, Robert ^b   Fuller, Clark ^a   Merhadi, Amin ^a   Hakimian, Behrooz ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LARYNX INJURY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349155220     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.11.049     Document Type: Article

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