Postoperative management after thymectomy.
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Postoperative management after thymectomy.
This paper reports a retrospective study of the preoperative and postoperative management of 28 patients who underwent thymectomy between 1956 and 1973. Patients who received postoperative artificial ventilation were compared with the group who did not with respect to sex, age, severity of disease, preoperative vital capacity, and thymic histology. Evidence is presented that postoperative artif...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5953.309