Intrathoracic myoplasty for prosthesis infection after superior vena cava replacement for lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1231-1233

  Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a   Solli, Piergiorgio ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Pastorino, Ugo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORACOTOMY; VEIN PROSTHESIS;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FISTULA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRACHEAL DISEASES; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0036797827     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03819-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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