Critical evaluation: Is lung volume reduction surgery a forgotten operation?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 819-820

  Newman, Mark A J ^a   Smith, Julian A ^b  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; NOTE; STERNOTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50249147814     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04660.x     Document Type: Note

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