Role of video-assisted thoracoscopy in the management of stroke

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-159

  Muhammad, Magdi Ibrahim Ahmad ^a,b  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^b KING FAHAD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Atrial appendage; atrial fibrillation; stroke; thoracotomy; video assisted

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATION DURATION; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; STROKE; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO-ASSISTED;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892913735     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: 18165370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492312474656     Document Type: Article

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