How to clamp the main pulmonary artery during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-131

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Koyanagi, Tetsuya ^a   Nakashima, Shinji ^a   Higami, Tetsuya ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Pulmonary artery clamping; VATS lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CLAMP; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

CONSTRICTION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 33845333410     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.10.017     Document Type: Article

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