Surgeon Specialty and Long-Term Survival After Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 995-1006

  Farjah, Farhood ^a   Flum, David R ^a   Varghese Jr , Thomas K ^a   Symons, Rebecca Gaston ^a   Wood, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BOARD OF TRUSTEES; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL SURGERY; HAZARD RATIO; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62649138727     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.030     Document Type: Article

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