Video assisted resternotomy in high-risk redo operations - The St Mary's experience

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 932-934

  Athanasiou, Thanos ^a,b   DeL Stanbridge, Rex ^a   Kumar, Pankaj ^a   Cherian, Ashok ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endoscopic resternotomy; Redo cardiac surgery; Video assisted resternotomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETRACTOR; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; THORAX SURGERY; VIDEORECORDING;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 0036223159     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(02)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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