In patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery excision, what is the best way to locate a subcentimetre solitary pulmonary nodule in order to achieve successful excision?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 266-272

  Zaman, Mahvash ^a   Bilal, Haris ^b   Woo, Chui Yen ^a   Tang, Augustine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Localization technique; Review; Solitary pulmonary nodule; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869395969     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs068     Document Type: Article

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