What are the considerations in the surgical approach in pulmonary metastasectomy?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 6 SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Molnar, Tamas F ^a   Gebitekin, Cengiz ^b   Turna, Akif ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG RESECTION; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PALPATION; PNEUMONECTOMY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77953165949     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181dcf62c     Document Type: Article

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