Use of three-dimensional computed tomography images in deciding the approach for ministernotomy operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1090-1093

  Taguchi, Shinichi ^a   Niibori, Tatsuru ^a   Moro, Katsumi ^a  

^a SAITAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL APPROACH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

HUMAN; STERNUM; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033807661     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01746-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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