Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) versus thoracotomy for lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-18

  Flores, Raja M ^a   Park, Bernard J ^a   Dycoco, Joseph ^a   Aronova, Anna ^a   Hirth, Yael ^a   Rizk, Nabil P ^a   Bains, Manjit ^a   Downey, Robert J ^a   Rusch, Valerie W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR LEAK; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 67649413136     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.03.030     Document Type: Article

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