Does getting smokers to stop smoking before lung resections reduce their risk?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 320-323

  Zaman, Mahvash ^a   Bilal, Haris ^b   Mahmood, Sarah ^a   Tang, Augustine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung resection; Pulmonary complications; Review; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX SURGERY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84863439032     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivr093     Document Type: Article

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