Video-assisted thoracoscopic pericardial window for diagnosis and management of pericardial effusions

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 607-610

  Georghiou, Georgios P ^b   Stamler, Alon ^b   Sharoni, Erez ^b   Fichman Horn, Suzana ^b   Berman, Marius ^b   Vidne, Bernardo A ^b   Saute, Milton ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OPERATION DURATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 22544453868     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.02.068     Document Type: Article

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