Concomitant Mediastinoscopy Increases the Risk of Postoperative Pneumonia After Pulmonary Lobectomy

Concomitant Mediastinoscopy Increases the Risk of Postoperative Pneumonia After Pulmonary Lobectomy [1]

The authors demonstrate that mediastinoscopy at the time of either open or VATS lobectomy is independently associated with an increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (OR 1.46 and 1.53, respectively).

Source name:

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Resource link:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1245/s10434-018-6397-6 [3]

Taxonomy:

Lung - Cancer [4]

Lung Cancer - Staging [5]

Lung Cancer - Surgery [6]

Subspecialty(ies):

Thoracic [7]

Author(s):

Sai Yendamuri, Athar Battoo, Kris Attwood, Samjot Singh Dhillon, Grace K. Dy, Mark Hennon, Anthony Picone, Chukwumere Nwogu, Todd Demmy, Elisabeth Dexter

Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:

Lung [8]

Cancer [9]