Ten-year experience of mediastinal robotic surgery in a single referral centre

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 847-851

  Melfi, Franca ^a   Fanucchi, Olivia ^a   Davini, Federico ^a   Viti, Andrea ^a   Lucchi, Marco ^a   Ambrogi, Marcello Carlo ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Minimally invasive surgery; Robotics; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; CANCER SURGERY; CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATION DURATION; PERICARDIUM CYST; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; TERATOMA; THORAX SURGERY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CANCER STAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862326011     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezr112     Document Type: Article

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