Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for ectopic middle mediastinal thymoma in a patient with myasthenia gravis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Koezuka, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Fumitomo ^a   Hata, Yoshinobu ^a   Otsuka, Hajime ^a   Yuasa, Rena ^a   Kiribayashi, Takaharu ^a   Sasai, Daisuke ^a   Shibuya, Kazutoshi ^a   Takagi, Keigo ^a   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TRACHEA; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84874609628     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.08.065     Document Type: Article

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