Quality of life assessment six months after lobectomy for lung cancer: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy

Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-212

  Baysungur, Volkan ^a   Tezel, Çaǧatay ^a   Okur, Erdal ^a   Demirhan, Recep ^b   Kutlu, Burcu ^a   Halezeroǧlu, Semih ^a  

^a Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Dr Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Research and Training Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Lung cancer surgery; Quality of life; Toracotomy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957958308     PISSN: 13015680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2011.014     Document Type: Article

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