Experience with thoracoscopic resection for mediastinal mature teratoma: A retrospective analysis of 15 patients

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 441-444

  Shintani, Yasushi ^a   Funaki, Soichiro ^a   Nakagiri, Tomoyuki ^a   Inoue, Masayoshi ^a   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ^a   Minami, Masato ^a   Kadota, Yoshihisa ^b   Okumura, Meinoshin ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA PREFECTURAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY AND ALLERGIC DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinal mature teratoma; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MATURE TERATOMA; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERATOMA; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX PAIN; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERATOMA; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875171806     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs543     Document Type: Article

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