Successful immediate phrenic nerve reconstruction during mediastinal tumor resection

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1235-1237

  Schoeller, Thomas ^a   Öhlbauer, Markus ^a   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a   Piza Katzer, Hildegunde ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NERVE PARALYSIS; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035783897     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2001.117274     Document Type: Article

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