New technique of complete thymectomy in adult rats without tracheal intubation

Microsurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 6-8

  Delrivière, Luc ^a   Gibbs, Paul ^a   Kobayashi, Eiji ^b   Kamada, Naoshi ^c   Gianello, Pierre ^d  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 0031749520     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(1998)18:1<6::AID-MICR2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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