Role of video-assisted thoracic surgery for the treatment of myasthenia gravis: Extended thymectomy by median sternotomy versus the thoracoscopic approach with sternal lifting

International Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-51

  Hiratsuka, Masafumi ^a   Iwasaki, Akinori ^a   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^a   Yoneda, Satoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a   Shiraishi, Takeshi ^a   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Myasthenia gravis; Thymectomy; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PREDNISOLONE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 33750142039     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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