Four-arm robotic lobectomy for the treatment of early-stage lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Galetta, Domenico ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Melfi, Franca ^b   Schmid, Ralph Alexander ^c   Borri, Alessandro ^a   Vannucci, Fernando ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,d  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CISANELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCEPS; FOUR ARM ROBOTIC LOBECTOMY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCISION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NEUROPATHY; OPERATION DURATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953478732     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.025     Document Type: Article

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