The Safe Transition from Open to Thoracoscopic Lobectomy: A 5-Year Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 216-226

  Seder, Christopher W ^a   Hanna, Kenny ^a   Lucia, Victoria ^a   Boura, Judith ^a   Kim, Sang W ^a   Welsh, Robert J ^a   Chmielewski, Gary W ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TRANSFUSION; TUBE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649794721     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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