Preoperative assessment of the pulmonary artery by three-dimensional computed tomography before video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 875-877

  Fukuhara, Kenjiro ^a   Akashi, Akinori ^a   Nakane, Shigeru ^a   Tomita, Emiko ^a  

^a Takarazuka Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D CT angiography; Complete VATS; Lung cancer; VATS lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 52949087617     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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