From 1970 to 1993, 155 thoracotomies for metastatic lung tumors were performed on 113 patients in the Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine. Overall 30-day mortality amounted to 0.9% (1/113). The cumulative 3-and 5-year survival rates were 39.4% and 29.1%, respectively. The o
Surgical treatment of brain metastases. Clinical and computerized tomography evaluation of the results of treatment
โ Scribed by Narayan Sundaresan; Joseph H. Galicich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 646 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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