Characteristics associated with the use of nonanatomic resections among medicare patients undergoing resections of early-stage lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 895-901

  Kim, Anthony W ^a,b   Detterbeck, Frank C ^a   Boffa, Daniel J ^a   Decker, Roy H ^a,b   Soulos, Pamela R ^a,b   Cramer, Laura D ^a,b   Gross, Cary P ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; WEDGE RESECTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEER PROGRAM; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865233670     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.04.091     Document Type: Article

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