Repair of a recurrent benign tracheoesophageal fistula with a gore-tex membrane

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 304-306

  Bardini, Romeo ^a,b   Radicchi, Valentina ^a   Parimbelli, Paolo ^a   Tosato, Sara Maria ^a   Narne, Surendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Chirurgica I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MEMBRANE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA RESECTION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MESH; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037662131     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04898-1     Document Type: Article

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