Single-institution experience on robot-assisted thoracoscopic operations for mediastinal diseases

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 316-322

  Rea, Federico ^a   Schiavon, Marco ^a   Di Chiara, Francesco ^a   Marulli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Da Vinci robot; Mediastinal disease; Mediastinum; Thoracoscopy; Thymectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PARAVERTEBRAL TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOT ASSISTED THORACOSCOPY; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMIC CARCINOID; THYMUS DISEASE; TUMOR;

EID: 80455156327     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e318235b783     Document Type: Review

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