Laparoscopic transdiaphragmatic thymectomy without chest incisions.

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Section of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Published: February 2017

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