Surgical techniques for early-stage thymoma: Video-Assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy versus transsternal thymectomy

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1599-1603

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

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TRANSSTERNAL THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OPERATIVE TIME; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 84899957737     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.10.053     Document Type: Article

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