Secundum ASD closure using a right lateral minithoracotomy: Five-year experience in 122 patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1527-1530

  Doll, Nicolas ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Binner, Christian ^a   Bucerius, Jan ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   Gummert, Jan F ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a   Kostelka, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LATERAL MINITHORACOTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS VENOSUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0037406506     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04889-0     Document Type: Article

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