Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy: Focus on technique Raja M. Flores

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 616-620

  Flores, Raja M ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952426124     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0340-8     Document Type: Article

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