Single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uniportal) in the routine general thoracic surgical practice

Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 326-335

  Rocco, Gaetano ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCISION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SYMPATHECTOMY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 77950400649     PISSN: 15222942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.optechstcvs.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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