Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: experience with 341 cases
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Early experience of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
Consecutive 25 patients (M/F:18/7) underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for various chest illnesses. These included nine cases of pneumothorax, three cases of pericardial effusion, three cases of pleural effusion, four cases of lung lesion requiring either incisional or excisional biopsy, two cases of empyema, one case of traumatic haemothorax, and three cases of mediastinal le...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(98)00167-5