Alternative choices of total and partial thymectomy in video-assisted resection of noninvasive thymomas

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1272-1277

  Sakamaki, Yasushi ^a   Kido, Tetsuo ^a   Yasukawa, Motoaki ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endoscopic procedure; Mediastinum; Thymectomy; Thymoma; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL THYMECOTMY; PLEURA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THYMOMA; TOTAL THYMECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049141167     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9606-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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