An Inexpensive, Reproducible Tissue Simulator for Teaching Thoracoscopic Lobectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 594-597

  Meyerson, Shari L ^a   LoCascio, Frank ^a   Balderson, Stafford Scott ^b   D'Amico, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; LOBECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SWINE; THORACOSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HEART; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LUNG; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PERFUSION; PNEUMONECTOMY; SWINE; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 74549193499     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.07.067     Document Type: Article

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