AVATS: Awake Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery -extended series report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Klijian, Ara S ^a   Gibbs, Michael ^a   Andonian, Nicole T ^a  

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Sharp and Scripps Healthcare ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Awake VATS; Local; Sedation thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910097549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13019-014-0149-x     Document Type: Article

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