Surgical Management of Tumors Invading the Superior Vena Cava

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2144-2146

  Garcia, Alejandro ^a   Flores, Raja M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORACOTOMY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERICARDIUM; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; THORACOTOMY; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 43649095387     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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