Extended Transcervical Thymectomy: The Ultimate Minimally Invasive Approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Shrager, Joseph B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXTENDED TRANSCERVICAL THYMECTOMY; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; ROBOTICS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

HUMANS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NECK; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 77952306366     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.099     Document Type: Article

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