Thoracoscopic thymectomy using anterior chest wall lifting method

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1310-1311

  Ohta, Mitsunori ^a,b   Hirabayasi, Hirohisa ^a   Okumura, Meinoshin ^a   Minami, Masato ^a   Matsuda, Hikaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX WALL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

HUMANS; THORACIC WALL; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141785660     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00445-4     Document Type: Article

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