Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy: can we afford it?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 423-428

  Casali, Gianluca ^a   Walker, William S ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Lung cancer; Lung resection; Minimally invasive surgery; Thoracoscopy; VATS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL STAPLING; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMONECTOMY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849114404     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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