Ultrasonographic identification of peripheral pulmonary nodules through uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1099-1101

  Rocco, Gaetano ^a   Cicalese, Marcellino ^a   La Manna, Carmine ^a   La Rocca, Antonello ^a   Martucci, Nicola ^a   Salvi, Rosario ^a  

^a National Cancer Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EXTRATHORACIC CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MINITHORACOTOMY; PERIPHERAL LUNG LESION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX CANCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; THIGH; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPES;

EID: 80052793603     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.03.030     Document Type: Article

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