Is it time to consider pleurectomy and decortication as the only surgical treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma?

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 629-630

  Weyant, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECORTICATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG RESECTION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 84858778752     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e31824d9a52     Document Type: Editorial

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