Is muscle-sparing thoracotomy advantageous?

Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-48

  Çobanoǧlu, Ufuk ^a   Hiz, Özcan ^a   Melek, Mehmet ^a   Edirne, Yeşim ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Muscle sparing thoracotomy; Standard posterolateral thoracotomy; Vertical thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957929928     PISSN: 13015680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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