Video-assisted thoracoscopic extended thymectomy (VATET) in myasthenia gravis - Two-year follow-up in 101 patients and comparison with the transsternal approach

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 841, Issue , 1998, Pages 749-752

  Mantegazza, R ^a   Confalonieri, P ^a   Antozzi, C ^a   Novellino, L ^b   Ferro M T ^c   Porta, M ^c   Pezzuoli, G ^b   Cornelio, F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b Division of Vascular Surgery   (Italy)

^c Division of Neurology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REMISSION; STERNOTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

EID: 0031879170     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11013.x     Document Type: Article

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