Mediastinoscopy and mediastinotomy after cardiac surgery: Are safety and efficacy affected by prior sternotomy?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 872-876

  Kumar, Pankaj ^a   Yamada, Katsuo ^a   Ladas, George P ^a   Goldstraw, Peter ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SINUS HISTIOCYTOSIS; STERNOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM;

EID: 0041830576     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00512-5     Document Type: Article

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