Late complication of extended cervical mediastinoscopy

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-224

  Haclibrahimoglu, Gokhan ^a,b   Cevik, Aysegul ^a   Bedirhan, Mehmet Ali ^a   Kutlu, Cemal Asim ^a  

^a Yedikule Teaching Hospital   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNIQUE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG ABSCESS; METHODOLOGY; PLEURA DISEASE; THORACOSCOPY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PLEURAL DISEASES; THORACOSCOPY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 4344599525     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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