Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: The Cincinnati experience

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 434, Issue , 2005, Pages 61-70

  Al Sayyad, Mohammed J ^b   Crawford, Alvin H ^a   Wolf, Randal K ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRODESIS; BONE TUMOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FIRST RIB; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPONDYLITIS; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18144425770     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000163244.77486.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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