Preoperative Assessment of Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Resection

Exercise Capacity as a Predictor of Post-thoracotomy Morbidity^1–3

1984 • 239 citations

Determinants of perioperative morbidity and mortality after pneumonectomy

1989 • 229 citations

Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation and Therapy for Surgery Patients

1970 • 229 citations

Assessment of Exercise Oxygen Consumption as Preoperative Criterion for Lung Resection

1987 • 212 citations

Prediction of Postpneumonectomy Pulmonary Function Using Quantitative Macroaggregate Lung Scanning

1974 • 189 citations

Pulmonary function evaluation of the lung resection candidate: a prospective study.

1975 • 185 citations

THE ROLE OF PULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY IN MORTALITY AND INVALIDISM FOLLOWING SURGERY FOR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

1955 • 178 citations

Limited Resection of Bronchogenic Carcinoma in the Patient with Marked Impairment of Pulmonary Function

1987 • 166 citations

Indications for Pulmonary Function Testing

1990 • 154 citations

Prediction of Pulmonary Function Loss Due to Pneumonectomy Using 133Xe-Radiospirometry

1972 • 141 citations

Elective Pulmonary Lobectomy: Factors Associated with Morbidity and Operative Mortality

1985 • 140 citations

Ventilatory Function and Chronic Mucus Hypersecretion as Predictors of Death from Lung Cancer

1990 • 122 citations

Submaximal Invasive Exercise Testing and Quantitative Lung Scanning in the Evaluation for Tolerance of Lung Resection

1989 • 114 citations

Use of radionuclide scanning in the preoperative estimation of pulmonary function after pneumonectomy.

1987 • 108 citations

Preoperative Pulmonary Function Testing

1990 • 93 citations

A Comparison between Measured and Calculated Changes in the Lung Function after Operation for Pulmonary Cancer

1975 • 81 citations

Hospital Mortality and Long-term Survival in Relation to Preoperative Function in Elderly Patients with Bronchogenic Carcinoma

1984 • 72 citations

Role of pulmonary vascular resistance measurements in preoperative evaluation of candidates for pulmonary resection

1978 • 71 citations

Exercise Tolerance Test in Lung Cancer Patients: The Relationship between Exercise Capacity and Postthoracotomy Hospital Mortality

1987 • 54 citations

Extending Resectability for Carcinoma of the Lung in Patients with Impaired Pulmonary Function

1978 • 40 citations

Preoperative Evaluation with Differential Pulmonary Function

1974 • 35 citations

Prediction of ventilatory capacity after lobectomy.

1973 • 34 citations

Temporary Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Occlusion in the Preoperative Evaluation of Patients with Bronchial Carcinoma

1967 • 33 citations

Regional Pulmonary Function before and after Pneumonectomy Using 133Xenon

1975 • 27 citations

PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE THORACIC SURGICAL PATIENT

1992 • 24 citations

Cardiopulmonary Function in Lung Resection Performed for Bronchogenic Cancer in Patients Above 65 Years of Age

1970 • 22 citations

Preoperative Assessment of Lung Cancer

1989 • 14 citations

Lateral Position Test and Quantitative Lung Scan in the Preoperative Evaluation for Lung Resection

1984 • 14 citations

Right Heart Catheterization in the Pre-Operative Evaluation of Patients with Lung Cancer

1985 • 13 citations

Selection and Preoperative Treatment of Over-seventy-year-old Patients Undergoing Thoracotomy

1985 • 13 citations

Lung Split Function Test and Pneumonectomy:A Lower Limit for Operability

1978 • 11 citations