A proposal for management after lung resection, using a flexible silastic drain

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 435-442

  Kamiyoshihara, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nagashima, Toshiteru ^a   Ibe, Takashi ^a  

^a MAEBASHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest Tubes; Lung Diseases; Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR LEAK; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DRAIN; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE SILASTIC DRAIN; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SEGMENTECTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST TUBES; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; DRAINAGE; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651241048     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492310380499     Document Type: Article

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