Thoracoscopic lobectomy: Is a training program feasible with low postoperative morbidity?

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 409-413

  Billè, Andrea ^a   Okiror, Lawrence ^a   Karenovics, Wolfram ^a   Choudhuri, Debajeet ^a   Routledge, Tom ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Conversion rate; Lung cancer; Training program; VATS lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHEST INFECTION; DEFIBRILLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 84879793857     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: 18636713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-013-0225-5     Document Type: Article

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