Video-assisted thoracoscopy is feasible under local anesthesia

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 177-182

  Smit, Hans J M ^a   Schramel, Fránz M N H ^a   Sutedja, Tom G ^a   Ter Laak Uytenhaak, Luud S C ^a   Nannes Pols, Marjolein H ^a   Postmus, Pieter E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Local anesthesia; Pleural fluid; Pleurodesis; Pneumothorax; Video assisted thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

TALC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; THORACOSCOPY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031750875     PISSN: 10703608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/DTE.4.177     Document Type: Article

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