Reoperation on the thymus: A critique

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 439-445

  Kirschner, P A ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; REOPERATION; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035014036     PISSN: 10523359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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