Outcomes of patients with gynecologic malignancies undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 646-648

  Whitworth, Jenny M ^a   Schneider, Kellie E ^a   Fauci, Janelle M ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^b   Cerfolio, Robert J ^b   Straughn, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Pleural effusions; Pleurodesis; VATS

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; PLATINUM; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OVARY CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURODESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861200394     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.02.029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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