Successful Video-Assisted Mediastinoscopic Drainage of Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2279-2281

  Shimizu, Kimihiro ^a   Otani, Yoshimi ^a   Nakano, Tetuhiro ^a   Takayasu, Yukihiro ^a   Yasuoka, Yoshihito ^a   Morishita, Yasuo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSCESS; AGED; DEBRIDEMENT; DRAINAGE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; NECK; NECROSIS; PHARYNGITIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 33646834125     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.07.096     Document Type: Article

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