Importance of preoperative imaging with 64-row three-dimensional multidetector computed tomography for safer video-assisted thoracic surgery in lung cancer

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 844-847

  Akiba, Tadashi ^a   Marushima, Hideki ^a   Harada, Junta ^a   Kobayashi, Susumu ^a   Morikawa, Toshiaki ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Lung mediastinum; Pulmonary artery; Three dimensional computed tomography; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG VEIN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349556666     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-3965-1     Document Type: Article

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