The risks in abdominal and thoracic surgery in copd
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 54 (3) , 183-192
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1973.11713564
Abstract
Most pulmonary complications following surgery in patients with COPD result either from failure to recognize the presence of the lung disease beforehand or from relative neglect during the first few hours after operation.Keywords
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