Video-assisted thoracoscopic extirpation of a posterior mediastinal mass using the da Vinci computer enhanced surgical system

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1235-1237

  Yoshino, Ichiro ^a   Hashizume, Makoto ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CYST; MEDIASTINUM MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRONCHOGENIC CYST; FEMALE; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036797559     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03820-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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