Video-assisted thoracoscopic enucleation after congenital cardiac surgery
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Video-assisted thoracoscopic enucleation after congenital cardiac surgery
A 26-year-old man underwent arterial switch surgery for transposition of the great arteries in infancy. During a routine evaluation, a nodule was detected in the left lower lobe on chest computed tomography. The tumor had enlarged at follow-up and he underwent surgical resection. Because of past cardiac surgery, the pericardium was defective; therefore, the heart was exposed to the pleural cavi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Surgical Case Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2042-8812
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjv123