Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the surgical treatment of Masaoka stage I thymoma

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ye, Bo ^a   Tantai, Ji Cheng ^a   Li, Wang ^b   Ge, Xiao Xiao ^a   Feng, Jian ^a   Cheng, Ming ^a   Zhao, Heng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive surgery; Robotics; Thymoma; Thymus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; ROBOTIC ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORAX DRAINAGE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84880183231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-11-157     Document Type: Article

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