Pleuroscopy: Therapeutic applications

Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Weissberg, Dov ^a,b   Refaely, Yael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pleuroscopy; Therapeutic pleuroscopy; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHYLOTHORAX; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FOREIGN BODY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0029961092     PISSN: 00365580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14017439609107234     Document Type: Article

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