Is surgical morbidity decreased with minimally invasive lobectomy?

Cancer Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-22

  Park, Bernard J ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

non small cell lung cancer; Postoperative morbidity; thoracotomy; VATS lobectomy

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE LOBECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORBIDITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONECTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551572078     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PPO.0b013e31820b6d27     Document Type: Review

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