Complications in wound healing after chest wall resection in cancer patients; A multivariate analysis of 220 patients

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 639-643

  Lans, Titia E ^a   Van Der Pol, Carmen ^b   Wouters, Michel W ^c   Schmitz, Paul I M ^a   Van Geel, Albert N ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chest wall resection; Complications; Sarcoma; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FISTULA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RIB RESECTION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL WOUND; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; CANCER STAGING; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX WALL; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACIC WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651166983     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31819d18c9     Document Type: Article

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