Multicenter VATS experience with mediastinal tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 187-192

  Demmy, Todd L ^a   Krasna, Mark J ^b   Detterbeck, Frank C ^c   Kline, Gary G ^d   Kohman, Leslie J ^e   DeCamp Jr , Malcolm M ^f   Wain, John C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHEST TUBES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOARSENESS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINAL CYST; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SAFETY; SARCOMA; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032125689     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00378-6     Document Type: Article

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