eComment: Routine or selective reinforcement of bronchial stump after pneumonectomy?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 625-

  Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a   Panagopoulos, Nikolaos D ^b   Dougenis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION STUMP; ANEMIA; AZYGOS VEIN; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY FAT; BRONCHIAL STUMP INSUFFICIENCY; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; LUNG RESECTION; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MUSCLE FLAP; PERICARDIAL FAT PAD; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49249088109     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.166546B     Document Type: Conference Paper

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