Surgical and neurologic outcomes after robotic thymectomy in 100 consecutive patients with myasthenia gravis

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 730-736

  Marulli, Giuseppe ^a   Schiavon, Marco ^a   Perissinotto, Egle ^a   Bugana, Antonella ^a   Di Chiara, Francesco ^a   Rebusso, Alessandro ^a   Rea, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC THYMECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS ATROPHY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA;

ADULT; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873992974     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.12.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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