Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Segmentectomy: The Future of Surgery for Lung Cancer?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Swanson, Scott J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGMENTECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952314707     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.040     Document Type: Article

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