Clinical value of quantitative ventilation-perfusion lung scans in the surgical management of bronchogenic carcinoma.

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Summary

All patients requiring lung resection had their postoperative FEV1 predicted from the perfusion scan, and the contribution of the lung to be resected to the overall pulmonary function was calculated by combining the results of spirometry with the quantitative measurement of differential perfusion and/or ventilation according to several equations.

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1980-10-01
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Medicine, Pneumonectomy, Spirometry, Perfusion, Pulmonary function testing

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