published by Damascus University
in 1999
in Medicine
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
we have started applying assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in AL-ASSAD
University hospital in Damascus in 1992 and we achieved in a period past 332
different operations, most of them were done under general anesthesia, only 48
cases were done under local, due to the risk of general anesthesia. The age of
patients varied between 13-72 year.
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Akio Wakabayashi, Expanded application of diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopy, Thoraco, Cardiovasular Surgery - 102 - 5 - 1991
Chien, Chihlin, Anew method of thoracoscopic sympathectomy in hyperhidreosis paimaris, Surgical Endoscopy, 4 - 1990
Michael Mack and others, present role of thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest, Ann, thoracic surgery, 1992