Video-assisted thoracic surgery - State of the art

Annali Italiani di Chirurgia

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 539-543

  Weissberg, Dov ^a   Schachner, Arie ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Thoracic surgery; Video assisted techniques

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; THORACIC DISEASES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034278094     PISSN: 2239253X     EISSN: 2239253X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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