New innovative instruments facilitate both direct-vision and endoscopic-assisted mini-mitral valve surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Yozu, Ryohei ^a   Okamoto, Kazuma ^a   Kudo, Mikihiko ^a   Nonaka, Hidenori ^b   Adams, David H ^c  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIMEDIC   (Japan)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; SILICON;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINITHORACOTOMY; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETRACTOR; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858333091     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.05.026     Document Type: Editorial

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