Spontaneous ventilation in thoracoscopic thymectomy: breathing freely

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Brian Cohen et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;10(Suppl 33):S3859-S3861.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.96.

¹ Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.

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Thoracoscopic surgery for tracheal and carinal resection and reconstruction under spontaneous ventilation.
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