Training Surgeons to Perform Robotically Assisted Totally Endoscopic Coronary Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 523-527

  Schachner, Thomas ^a   Bonaros, Nikolaos ^a   Wiedemann, Dominik ^a   Weidinger, Felix ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a   Friedrich, Guy ^a   Laufer, Guenther ^a   Bonatti, Johannes ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LIPECTOMY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 67650707917     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.089     Document Type: Article

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