Safer video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy after location of thymic veins with multidetector computed tomography

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1419-1422

  Shiono, H ^a   Inoue, A ^a   Tomiyama, N ^a   Shigemura, N ^a   Ideguchi, K ^a   Inoue, M ^a   Minami, M ^a   Okumura, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multidetector row CT; Myasthenia gravis; Thymic vein; Video assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SIMULATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYMECTOMY; VEIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VEINS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33749015492     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0659-7     Document Type: Article

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