Outcomes After Unilateral Lung Volume Reduction

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 204-212

  Meyers, Bryan F ^a   Sultan, Parvez K ^a   Guthrie, Tracey J ^a   Lefrak, Stephen S ^a   Davis, Gail E ^a   Patterson, G Alexander ^a   Cooper, Joel D ^b   Yusen, Roger D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47049096122     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.03.029     Document Type: Article

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