Pre-operative chest radiograph. The challenge continues;La radiografia del torace nel preoperatorio. La sfida continua

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 437-442

  Silvestri, Luciano ^a   Gullo, A ^b  

^a District Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 4344657159     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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