Feasibility of transtracheal thoracoscopy (natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery)

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1349-1350

  Liu, Yun Hen ^a   Liu, Hung Ping ^a   Wu, Yi Chen ^a   Ko, Po Jen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; INCISION; LUNG VENTILATION; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SWINE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOSCOPY; TRACHEA; TRANSTRACHEAL THORACOSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOSCOPES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE; THORACOSCOPY; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77950917097     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.09.039     Document Type: Article

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