Thoracoscopic Chest Wall Resection: What Is Its Role?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Demmy, Todd L ^a   Nwogu, Chukwumere E ^a   Yendamuri, Sai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL CANCER;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC WALL; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 77952301884     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.110     Document Type: Article

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