Adjuvant pneumomediastinum in thoracoscopic thymectomy for mysthenia gravis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1210-1212

  Mineo, Tommaso Claudio ^a,b   Pompeo, Eugenio ^a   Ambrogi, Vincenzo ^a   Sabato, Alessandro F ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a   Casciani, Carlo U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 0030272430     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00537-1     Document Type: Article

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