The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 1 , Pages 11-18 , July 2009

Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) versus thoracotomy for lung cancer

Received 9 May 2008 ,Revised 27 January 2009 ,Accepted 7 March 2009.

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 Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00482-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.03.030

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 138, Issue 1 , Pages 11-18 , July 2009

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