Robot-aided thoracoscopic thymectomy for early-stage thymoma: A multicenter European study

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1125-1132

  Marulli, Giuseppe ^a   Rea, Federico ^a   Melfi, Franca ^b   Schmid, Thomas A ^c   Ismail, Mahmoud ^d   Fanucchi, Olivia ^b   Augustin, Florian ^c   Swierzy, Marc ^d   Di Chiara, Francesco ^a   Mussi, Alfredo ^b   Rueckert, Jens C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; THYMECTOMY; THYMIC EPITHELIAL TUMOR; THYMOMA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85027936584     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.07.082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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