Current indications and results for thoracoplasty and intrathoracic muscle transposition

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1215-1220

  Krassas, Athanase ^a   Grima, Renaud ^a   Bagan, Patrick ^a   Badia, Alain ^a   Arame, Alex ^a   Barthes, Françoise Le Pimpec ^a   Riquet, Marc ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Bronchial fistula; Empyema; Lung cancer; Muscle flap; Thoracoplasty; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; THROAT DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77951298889     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.11.049     Document Type: Article

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