Efficacy of awake thoracic surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 249-250

  Mineo, Tommaso Claudio ^a   Ambrogi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWAKE THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; DECORTICATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PNEUMOTHORAX; LETTER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG VOLUME; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHECTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 83455164049     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.08.046     Document Type: Letter

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