Looking in from above and up from below: New vistas in thoracic surgery

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 161-164

  Detterbeck, Frank C ^a   Kim, Anthony W ^a   Zielinski, Marcin ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PULMONARY HOSPITAL   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; LUNG RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 84865470001     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e31826145b1     Document Type: Editorial

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