Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy is associated with better perioperative outcomes than open lobectomy in a veteran population

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 204, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 607-612

  Cajipe, Miguel D ^a   Chu, Danny ^a,b   Bakaeen, Faisal G ^a,b   Casal, Roberto F ^a   Lemaire, Scott A ^a,b   Coselli, Joseph S ^a,b   Cornwell, Lorraine D ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Lobectomy; Lung cancer; Outcomes; VATS; Veterans; Veterans Affairs; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CHEST TUBE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPEN LOBECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VETERAN; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY LOBECTOMY;

AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 84868529486     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.07.022     Document Type: Article

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