Successful resection of posterior mediastinal thyroid cancer by partial sternotomy combined with video-assisted thoracoscopy

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-49

  Isowa, Noritaka ^a   Kikuchi, Ryutaro ^a   Kunimoto, Yasuomi ^a   Ito, Kazuyuki ^a   Tokuyasu, Hirokazu ^a   Fukuda, Katsuhiko ^a   Kawasaki, Yuji ^a  

^a MATSUE RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Mediastinal tumor; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STERNUM; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34447343385     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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