VATS intraoperative tattooing to facilitate solitary pulmonary nodule resection

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Willekes, Lourens ^a   Boutros, Cherif ^a   Goldfarb, Michael A ^a  

^a MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHYLENE BLUE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TATTOOING; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TATTOOING; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41749099056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-3-13     Document Type: Article

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