Video-assisted thoracoscopic pericardial fenestration for loculated or recurrent effusions

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-408

  Geissbühler, Karl ^a   Leiser, Alfred ^a   Fuhrer, Jürg ^a   Ris, Hans Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pericardium; Recurrence; Thoracoscopy; Window

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; DRAINAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURODESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; TALC; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032192086     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(98)00153-5     Document Type: Article

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