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Development of less invasive surgical procedures for thoracic esophageal cancer

Diseases of the Esophagus, 2004
In order to minimize the invasiveness of the operative procedure for thoracic esophageal cancer, several procedures have been introduced since January 1997. They included: (i) perioperative use of steroids; (ii) muscle-sparing thoracotomy without costectomy; (iii) preparation of the gastric tube with preservation of sufficient blood supply; (iv ...
Yoshihiro Nabeya +8 more
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Functional Operability in Thoracic Surgical Procedures

1989
The bronchopulmonary system, like most other organ systems in the body, possesses a significant functional reserve. This is most apparent during exercise, when the pulmonary tidal volume and oxygen consumption can increase by a factor of 10–20 over basal values.
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Surgical treatment of late-onset idiopathic thoracic scoliosis. The Leeds procedure

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, 1987
Late-onset idiopathic scoliosis is associated with a rib hump in the thoracic region, and surgery is indicated when this deformity becomes unacceptable. Fifty patients with this deformity were treated by the Leeds procedure, which consists of segmental wiring to a kyphotically-contoured square-ended Harrington rod; this procedure not only derotates ...
Robert A. Dickson, IA Archer
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Choice of Surgical Procedures for Thoracic Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament

2007
In our opinion, for patients with both cervical and thoracic OPLL, wide-ranging posterior decompression surgery with or without instrumentation is the treatment of choice [14]. For localized and exceedingly thick OPLL without cervical OPLL, either (1) posterior decompression and correction of thoracic kyphosis by instrumentation with or without a ...
Katsushi Takeshita, Kozo Nakamura, Atsushi Seichi +2 more
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Diagnostic Thoracic Surgical Procedures