Lung Volume Reduction Surgery in the United States From 2007 to 2013: Increasing Volumes and Reason for Caution

Chest. 2019 May;155(5):1080-1081. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.01.032.
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Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Cohort Studies
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Hospital Mortality / trends*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Inpatients / statistics & numerical data
  • Male
  • Pneumonectomy / methods*
  • Pneumonectomy / mortality
  • Pneumonectomy / statistics & numerical data*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / surgery*
  • Pulmonary Edema / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Edema / surgery*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Assessment
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States