Video-assisted mediastinal lymph node dissection assessed in an experimental setting

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 128-132

  Furrer, M ^a   Altermatt, H J ^a   Ris, H B ^a   Mettler, D ^a   Althaus, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Endoscopic dissection; Mediastinal lymph node; VATS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MEDIASTINUM; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030072874     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00188357     Document Type: Article

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