Robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for benign and malignant esophageal tumors

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1202-1206

  Bodner, Johannes C ^a   Zitt, Matthias ^a   Ott, Harald ^a   Wetscher, Gerold J ^a   Wykypiel, Heinz ^a   Lucciarini, Paolo ^a   Schmid, Thomas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERILYMPH FISTULA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; STENT; THORACOSCOPY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL CYST; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ROBOTICS; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144458005     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.03.061     Document Type: Article

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