Thoracoscopic robot-assisted extended thymectomy in the human cadaver

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 965-967

  Ishikawa, Norihiko ^a   Sun, You Su ^a,b   Nifong, L Wiley ^a   Oda, Makoto ^b   Watanabe, Go ^b   Chitwood Jr , W Randolph ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended thymectomy; Lifting sternum method; Robotic thymectomy; Subxiphoid approach

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTOR; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 77952551707     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0638-5     Document Type: Article

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