Open AccessClinical analysis of acute lung injury after esophagectomy
Author(s) -
Wei Wu,
Yongqing Wang,
Xiaolin Wang,
Aizemaiti Rusidanmu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.151541
Subject(s) - medicine , esophagectomy , surgery , anastomosis , esophageal cancer , pulmonary function testing , odds ratio , lung cancer , gastroenterology , cancer
Acute lung injury (ALI) is one of the most severe postoperative complications after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer patients. In order to clarify the mechanism of ALI, we, therefore, studied the operative course of a group of patients who underwent elective esophagectomy.