Risk Factors for Prolonged Air Leak After Pulmonary Resection

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 359-364

  Brunelli, Alessandro ^a   Cassivi, Stephen D ^b   Halgren, Lisa ^b  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest drainage; Chest tubes; Prolonged air leak; Pulmonary lobectomy; Risk factors; Risk models

Indexed keywords

FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED AIR LEAK; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TUBE; CHEST TUBE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORACOSCOPY;

CHEST TUBES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 77954382373     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2010.03.002     Document Type: Review

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