Surgical management of tracheal compression caused by mediastinal goiter: Is extracorporeal circulation requisite?

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-50

  Wang, Guangsuo ^a   Lin, Shaolin ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Sun, Zongquan ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal circulation; Mediastinal tumor; Substernal goiter; Tracheal compression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862230551     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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