Unplanned conversion to thoracotomy during video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy does not compromise the surgical outcome

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 590-595

  Park, Joon Suk ^a   Kim, Hong Kwan ^a   Choi, Yong Soo ^a   Kim, Jhingook ^a   Shim, Young Mog ^a   Kim, Kwhanmien ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952183928     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0913-6     Document Type: Article

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