8 Years' experience with robotic thymectomy for thymomas

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1202-1208

  Keijzers, Marlies ^a   Dingemans, Anne Marie C ^a   Blaauwgeers, Hans ^b   Van Suylen, Robert Jan ^a,c   Hochstenbag, Monique ^a   Van Garsse, Leen ^a   Accord, Ryan ^a   De Baets, Mark ^a   Maessen, Jos ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive surgery; Robotic surgery; Thymectomy; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOBRONCHIAL VENTILATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG CAPACITY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYASTHENIC CRISIS; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTIC THYMECTOMY; ROBOTICS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACIC HERNIATION; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DISEASE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84899471496     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-3309-5     Document Type: Article

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