Surgery for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Versus Thoracotomy Approaches to Lobectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2008-2018

  Whitson, Bryan A ^a   Groth, Shawn S ^a   Duval, Susan J ^b   Swanson, Scott J ^c   Maddaus, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56049114021     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.07.009     Document Type: Review

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