Two decades of experience with thoracoscopic lobectomy in infants and children: Standardizing techniques for advanced thoracoscopic surgery

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 423-428

  Rothenberg, Steven S ^a,b   Middlesworth, William ^a   Kadennhe Chiweshe, Angela ^a   Aspelund, Gudrun ^a   Kuenzler, Keith ^a   Cowles, Robert ^a   Bodenstein, Lawrence ^a   Kay, Saundra ^b   Shipman, Kristin ^b   Rothenberg, Cathryn ^b   Stolar, Charles ^a   Stylianos, Steven ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL STAPLER; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGEON; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESSEL SEALING SYSTEM; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG RESECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OPERATIVE TIME; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; REOPERATION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 84929411295     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: 15579034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2014.0350     Document Type: Article

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