New directions in thoracoscopy: Is the future fluorescent?

Respiration

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 188-189

  Maskell, N A ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN SODIUM;

ATELECTASIS; BIOACCUMULATION; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCEIN ENHANCED AUTOFLUORESCENCE THORACOSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT THORACOSCOPY; LUNG; LUNG VENTILATION; NEBULIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORACOSCOPY;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANIMALS; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 77954562647     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318584     Document Type: Editorial

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