Analysis of 11 trials comparing muscle-sparing with posterolateral thoracotomy

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 344-352

  Li, Shikang ^a   Feng, Zhiqiang ^a   Wu, Lishuo ^a   Huang, Qiangxin ^a   Pan, Shangling ^b   Tang, Xianyan ^b   Ma, Buguo ^b  

^a FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

chest wall; complications; outcomes (includes mortality and morbidity); pulmonary function; surgery; surgery incisions

Indexed keywords

INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ATELECTASIS; CONVALESCENCE; EMPYEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LUNG FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE SPARING THORACOTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTEROLATERAL THORACOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; BACK MUSCLE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACK MUSCLES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902533385     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: 14391902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1337445     Document Type: Review

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