Endoscopic thoracic surgery: Indications, feasibility, and limitations;Chancen der endoskopischen Thoraxchirurgie und ihre Grenzen

Chirurg

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 324-332

  Dienemann, H ^a,b   Hoffmann, H ^a  

^a Chirurgische Abteilung   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic procedures; Mediastinoscopy; Mediastinotomy; Therapeutic procedures; Video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCISION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINOTOMY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MORBIDITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PALPATION; PERICARDIUM CYST; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA DISEASE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; SAFETY; SARCOIDOSIS; SKILL; SURGEON; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; THORAX TUMOR;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC DISEASES; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 0141575506     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00104-003-0644-4     Document Type: Review

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