Experience with robotic lobectomy for lung cancer

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 355-360

  Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Agoglia, Bernardo G ^a   Melfi, Franca ^b   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Bertolotti, Raffaella ^a   Bianchi, Paolo P ^a   Rocco, Bernardo ^c   Borri, Alessandro ^a   Gasparri, Roberto ^a   Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a,c  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CISANELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Pulmonary lobectomy; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTIC LUNG LOBECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84857861208     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e3182490093     Document Type: Article

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