Virtual CT thoracoscopy: Preoperative simulation for thoracoscopic surgery of esophageal cancer

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 679-687

  Morita, Yoshiaki ^a   Takase, Kei ^a   Yamada, Takayuki ^a   Sato, Akihiro ^a   Higano, Shuichi ^a   Takahashi, Shoki ^a   Ichikawa, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; MDCT; Preoperative simulation; Thoracoscopy; Virual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

BONE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SKIN; THORACOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35848949557     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9165-1     Document Type: Review

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