Robot-Assisted Lobectomy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer: Report of 100 Consecutive Cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 380-384

  Gharagozloo, Farid ^a   Margolis, Marc ^a   Tempesta, Barbara ^a   Strother, Eric ^a   Najam, Farzad ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOID; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DURAL LEAK; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ROBOTICS; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 67650738543     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.039     Document Type: Article

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