Technical Tricks to Facilitate Totally Endoscopic Major Pulmonary Resections

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 323-326

  Gossot, Dominique ^a  

^a INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 47049094289     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.01.091     Document Type: Article

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