Is it safe to include octogenarians at the start of a video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy programme?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-352

  Amer, Khalid ^a   Khan, Ali Zamir ^b   Vohra, Hunaid ^a   Saad, Rasheed ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Medanta Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery   (India)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Non small cell lung cancer; Octogenarians; Systematic nodal dissection; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SURVIVAL RATE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; AGE; CANCER STAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860387138     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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