Preoperative evaluation of patients submitted to pneumonectomy for lung carcinoma: Role of exercise testing

Tumori

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-409

  Villani, Fabrizio ^a   Busia, Alessandra ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exercise testing; Lung carcinoma; Pneumonectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 4644221869     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160409000408     Document Type: Article

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