Treatment of Chylothorax by Robotic Thoracic Duct Ligation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 334-336

  Thompson, Kari J ^a   Kernstine, Kemp H ^a   Grannis Jr , Frederic W ^a   Mojica, Pablo ^a   Falabella, Andres ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE MARKER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NODULE; LOBECTOMY; LUNG LOBE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORCHIECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; ROBOTICS; SEMINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS TUMOR; THORACIC DUCT; THORACIC DUCT LIGATION; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; CHYLOTHORAX; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIGATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; ORCHIECTOMY; PNEUMONECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THORACIC DUCT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249011271     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.109     Document Type: Article

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