Characteristics of thymoma successfully resected by videothoracoscopic surgery

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 192-196

  Cheng, Yu Jen ^a   Hsu, Jui Sheng ^b   Kao, Eing Long ^c  

^a E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MUNICIPAL HSIAO KANG HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Minimally invasive surgery; Thoracoscopy; Thymoma; Thymomectomy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX PAIN; THYMOMA; THYMUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEOTHORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847632189     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3383-6     Document Type: Article

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