Randomized comparison of awake nonresectional versus nonawake resectional lung volume reduction surgery

 Disclosures: Authors have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support.

 Read at the 91st Annual Meeting of The American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May, 7–11, 2011.

 Awake Thoracic Surgery Research Group. Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy: Eugenio Pompeo, MD (Principal Investigator), Maria Antonietta Ceccon, MD, Ludovica Celidonio, MD, Benedetto Cristino, MD, Maria Elena Cufari, MD, Mario Dauri, MD, Eleonora Fabbi, MD, Francesca Leonardis, MD, Luca Frasca, MD, Mario Marino, MD, Roberto Massa, MD, Tommaso Claudio Mineo, MD, Sarit Nahmias, MD, Giuseppe Novelli, PhD, Ilaria Onorati, MD, Augusto Orlandi, MD, Alessandra Picardi, MD, Paola Rogliani, MD, Alessandro Fabrizio Sabato, MD, Elisabetta Sabato, MD, Cesare Saltini, MD, Anna Maria Servadio, Federico Tacconi, MD, Gian Luca Vanni, MD. University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy: Italo Nofroni, BS.

PII: S0022-5223(11)01068-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.09.050

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