Late onset postoperative pulmonary fistula following a pulmonary segmentectomy using electrocautery or a harmonic scalpel

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-25

  Takagi, Keigo ^a   Hata, Yoshinobu ^a   Sasamoto, Shuichi ^a   Tamaki, Kazuyoshi ^a   Fukumori, Kazuhiko ^a   Otsuka, Hajime ^a   Hasegawa, Chiyoko ^a   Shibuya, Kazutoshi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Electrocautery; Harmonic scalpel; Pulmonary fistula; Pulmonary segmentectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGATION; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LIGATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77649171317     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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