Morbidity in video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy for clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer: Is VATS lobectomy really safe?

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 156-159

  Kawachi, R ^a   Tsukada, H ^a   Nakazato, Y ^a   Takei, H ^a   Koshi Ishi, Y ^a   Goya, T ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Lung cancer; Morbidity; Thoracic surgery; VATS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AIR LEAKAGE; ANASTOMOTIC LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANCER STAGING; CHYLOTHORAX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VESSEL INJURY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX SURGERY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67449086070     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: 14391902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1039267     Document Type: Article

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