First experience of robotic extended thymectomy in Japan for myasthenia gravis with thymoma

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 183-187

  Nakamura, Hiroshige ^a   Taniguchi, Yuji ^a   Fujioka, Shinji ^a   Miwa, Ken ^a   Haruki, Tomohiro ^a   Takagi, Yuzo ^a   Yurugi, Yohei ^a   Kubouchi, Yasuaki ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Myasthenia gravis; Robot assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; ROBOT ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC EXTENDED THYMECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; PATIENT POSITIONING; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860753206     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: 18636713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-011-0817-x     Document Type: Article

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