Experience with the "Da Vinci" robotic system for thymectomy in patients with myasthenia gravis: Report of 33 cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 455-459

  Rea, Federico ^a   Marulli, Giuseppe ^a   Bortolotti, Luigi ^a   Feltracco, Paolo ^a   Zuin, Andrea ^a   Sartori, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS ATROPHY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31044440266     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.08.030     Document Type: Article

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