Photodynamic therapy and the evolution of a lung-sparing surgical treatment for mesothelioma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1738-1745

  Friedberg, Joseph S ^a   Mick, Rosemarie ^a   Culligan, Melissa ^a   Stevenson, James ^b   Fernandes, Annemarie ^c   Smith, Deborah ^c   Glatstein, Eli ^c   Hahn, Stephen M ^c   Cengel, Keith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PLEURA; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PNEUMONECTOMY;

EID: 79957735482     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.062     Document Type: Article

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