Middle lobe syndrome: A nationwide study on clinicopathological features and surgical treatment

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 77-81

  Einarsson, Jon Thorkell ^a   Einarsson, Jonas Geir ^a   Isaksson, Helgi ^a   Gudbjartsson, Tomas ^a,b   Gudmundsson, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bronchiectasis; Bronchiolitis obliterans; Histopathology; Lobectomy; Middle lobe syndrome; Organizing pneumonia; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ICELAND; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOBECTOMY; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE LUNG LOBE SYNDROME; MORTALITY; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE LOBE SYNDROME; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849083687     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2008.00109.x     Document Type: Article

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