Successful removal of bovine pericardium by bronchoscope after lung volume reduction surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2156-2157

  Iwasaki, Akinori ^a   Yoshinaga, Yasuteru ^a   Shirakusa, Takayuki ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

11

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; CATTLE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA;

EID: 9344262895     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01467-X     Document Type: Article

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