Comparison of the clinical benefits for non-small cell lung cancer patients between different volume of pleural lavage fluid following video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy and systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Abstract Background Pleural lavage is regularly performed before closing the chest wall in pulmonary surgeries to prevent pleural implantation of tumor cells and postoperative infection. However, scant data could be found in the literature regarding the optimal regimen for performing pleural lavage....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Trials |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13063-020-4146-1 |