Superior chest drainage with an active tube clearance system: Evaluation of a downsized chest tube

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 580-583

  Arakawa, Yoko ^a,b   Shiose, Akira ^a,b   Takaseya, Tohru ^a,b   Fumoto, Hideyuki ^a,b   Kim, Hyun Il ^a,b   Boyle, Edward M ^a,b   Gillinov, A Marc ^a,b   Fukamachi, Kiyotaka ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST CHARLES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TUBE CLEARANCE SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; HEMATOTHORAX; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE;

ANIMALS; CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMOTHORAX; SWINE;

EID: 78751672954     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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