Anatomical bases of left recurrent nerve lesions during mediastinoscopy

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-299

  Benouaich, Vincent ^a,b   Marcheix, Bertrand ^a   Carfagna, Luana ^a   Brouchet, Laurent ^b   Guitard, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Aorta; Mediastinoscopy; Palsy; Recurrent nerve; Trachea

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DISSECTION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; TRACHEA;

CADAVER; HUMANS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 63449138322     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0451-1     Document Type: Article

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