Low incidence of bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy for lung cancer

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-575

  Panagopoulos, Nikolaos D ^a   Apostolakis, Efstratios ^a   Koletsis, Efstratios ^a,c   Prokakis, Christos ^a   Hountis, Panagiotis ^b   Sakellaropoulos, George ^a   Bellenis, Ion ^b   Dougenis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bronchial stump; Bronchopleural fistula; Lung cancer; Pneumonectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHIAL STUMP CLOSURE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349469825     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.203646     Document Type: Article

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