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ArticleJournal of visualized surgery2017

Single incision extended video assisted transcervical thymectomy.

Marcello Migliore, Alessandra Criscione, Marco Nardini, Francesco Patti, Francesco Borrata

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Article in Journal of visualized surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Marcello MiglioreThoracic Surgery, Department of General and Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Policlinico University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Alessandra CriscioneThoracic Surgery, Department of General and Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Policlinico University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Marco NardiniThoracic Surgery, Department of General and Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Policlinico University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Francesco PattiNeurology Department, Policlinico University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Francesco BorrataThoracic Surgery, Department of General and Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Policlinico University Hospital of Catania, Catania, Italy.

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2–5 days). Decrease of symptoms was obtained in the entire group after a mean follow up of 79 months (range45–275 minutes). The length of hospitalization was 3 days (range8–150 months)Abstract: In the last 30 years the introduction of VATS in the surgical practice made possible to perform a wide range of thoracic operations including thymectomy. We describe our single incision video-assisted transcervical thymectomy (VATT) for non-thymomatous myasthenia gravis and/or small (<2 cm) intrathymic thymoma in 13 patients. The mean operation time was of 164 minutes (rangeand two patients had a complete stable remission. In conclusionmyasthenia gravisnon-thymomatous myasthenia gravissingle incision extended transcervical thymectomy (TT) is a safe and successful procedure which allows a complete excision of the anterior mediastinal fatthymectomytranscervicalUniportal surgery

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PMCPMC5676154

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