A hybrid technique: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pulmonary resections for community-based surgeons

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 700-704

  Kim, Roger H ^a   Takabe, Kazuaki ^a   Lockhart, Charles G ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bon Secours Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based; Lung cancer; Minimally invasive; Pulmonary resection; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORACOSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77649184988     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0615-z     Document Type: Article

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