Hybrid surgical approach of video-assisted minithoracotomy for lung cancer: Significance of direct visualization on quality of surgery

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Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2696-2701

  Okada, Morihito ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihiko ^a   Juki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Mimura, Takeshi ^a   Miyoshi, Kei ^a   Tsubota, Noriaki ^a  

^a HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Surgery; Thoracotomy; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 27144473592     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.128.4.2696     Document Type: Article

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