Secure closure of the tracheal incision after natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery with a silicone tracheal stent

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 711-712

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

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INCISION; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICONE TRACHEAL STENT; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; THERAPY EFFECT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BRONCHOSCOPE; DOG; EVALUATION STUDY; PROSTHESIS; SURGERY; THORACOSCOPY; TIME; TRACHEA; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOSCOPES; DOGS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SILICONES; STENTS; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEA; WOUND HEALING;

SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

EID: 77955982827     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.11.024     Document Type: Article

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