An analysis of the factors contributing to a reduction in the incidence of pulmonary complications following an esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-133

  Nakamura, Masaki ^a   Iwahashi, Makoto ^a   Nakamori, Mikihito ^a   Ishida, Koichiro ^a   Naka, Teiji ^a   Iida, Takeshi ^a   Katsuda, Masahiro ^a   Tsuji, Toshiaki ^a   Nakatani, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamaue, Hiroki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid administration; Esophageal cancer; Pulmonary complications; Respiratory physiotherapy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREATHING EXERCISES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING CESSATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 39149122834     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-007-0253-7     Document Type: Article

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