Postoperative pulmonary complications are associated with worse short- and long-term outcomes after extended esophagectomy

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 71-77

  Kinugasa, Shoichi ^a   Tachibana, Mitsuo ^a   Yoshimura, Hiroshi ^a   Ueda, Shuhei ^a   Fujii, Toshiyuki ^a   Dhar, Dipok Kumar ^a   Nakamoto, Takeru ^a   Nagasue, Naofumi ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal carcinoma; Morbidity; Mortality; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPHYXIA; ASTHMA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CHYLOTHORAX; EMPYEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPIROMETRY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE FIELD LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944219744     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20137     Document Type: Article

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