External validation of the Ferguson pulmonary risk score for predicting major pulmonary complications after oesophagectomy(†)

OBJECTIVES: Pulmonary complications remain a frequent cause of morbidity in patients undergoing oesophagectomy. Risk screening tools assist in patient stratification. Ferguson proposed a risk score system to predict major pulmonary complications after oesophagectomy. Our objective was to externally...

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Published in:Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
Main Authors: Reinersman, J. Matthew, Allen, Mark S., Deschamps, Claude, Ferguson, Mark K., Nichols, Francis C., Shen, K. Robert, Wigle, Dennis A., Cassivi, Stephen D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
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Thoracic
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701018/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25724906
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezv021
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