Outcomes of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Decortication

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 220-225

  Tong, Betty C ^a   Hanna, Jennifer ^a   Toloza, Eric M ^b   Onaitis, Mark W ^a   D'Amico, Thomas A ^a   Harpole, David H ^a   Burfeind, William R ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke Raleigh Hospital   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECORTICATION; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGICAL DECORTICATION; VIDEORECORDING;

EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76449108033     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.09.021     Document Type: Article

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