Postoperative mediastinal chyloma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1857-1858

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Yoshida, Junji ^a   Nishimura, Mitsuyo ^a   Takahashi, Kenro ^a   Nagai, Kanji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032737634     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01010-3     Document Type: Article

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