Extended indications for robotic surgery for posterior mediastinal tumors

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 308-313

  Kajiwara, Naohiro ^a   Kakihana, Masatoshi ^a   Usuda, Jitsuo ^a   Ohira, Tatsuo ^a   Kawate, Norihiko ^b   Ikeda, Norihiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinal neoplasms; Minimally invasive; Robotics; Surgical procedures; Thoracic surgery; Video assisted

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DA VINCI SURGICAL SYSTEM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MEDICAL DEVICE; ROBOTICS; SAFETY; VERTEBRA; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; LUNG CYST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRONCHOGENIC CYST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867651940     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: 18165370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492311434332     Document Type: Article

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