Novel Retractor for Lymph Node Dissection by Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1036-1037

  Sato, Yukio ^a   Tezuka, Yasuhiro ^a   Kanai, Yoshihiko ^a   Otani, Shinichi ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichi ^a   Tetsuka, Kenji ^a   Sohara, Yasunori ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FORCEPS; HAND GRIP; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORAX SURGERY;

HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 49549089121     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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