Decade-long experience with surgical therapy of myasthenia gravis: Early complications of 324 transsternal thymectomies

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1691-1697

  Kas, József ^a,b   Kiss, Dorottya ^b   Simon, Veronika ^b   Svastics, Egon ^a   Major, László ^a   Szobor, Albert ^c  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (Hungary)

^b MAV Hospital   (Hungary)

^c Department of Urology   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNUM; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; WEANING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STERNUM; THYMECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035162242     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03080-6     Document Type: Article

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