Do Japanese thoracic surgeons think that dissection of the pulmonary ligament is necessary after an upper lobectomy?

Surgery Today

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1097-1099

  Usuda, Katsuo ^a   Sagawa, Motoyasu ^a   Aikawa, Hirokazu ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^a   MacHida, Yuichiro ^a   Ueno, Masakatsu ^a   Sakuma, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complications; Lung cancer surgery; Pulmonary Ligament

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIGAMENT INJURY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY LIGAMENT DISSECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; JAPAN; LIGAMENTS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78349259267     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-4173-8     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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