Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy

A young woman with nonthymomic myasthenia gravis with failure of medical treatment was offered thymectomy through partial sternotomy. Shifting of vertical arm of “L” incision laterally avoids fracture of opposite sternal flange and provides better sternal stability postoperatively.

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Autores principales: Mohite, Prashant N., Rana, Sandip Singh, Sadasivan, Prasanth, Deshpande, Swapnil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
Materias:
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22022149
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.85268
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author Mohite, Prashant N.
Rana, Sandip Singh
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spelling pubmed-31952002011-10-21 Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy Mohite, Prashant N. Rana, Sandip Singh Sadasivan, Prasanth Deshpande, Swapnil J Cardiovasc Dis Res Cardiothoracic Surgery A young woman with nonthymomic myasthenia gravis with failure of medical treatment was offered thymectomy through partial sternotomy. Shifting of vertical arm of “L” incision laterally avoids fracture of opposite sternal flange and provides better sternal stability postoperatively. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3195200/ /pubmed/22022149 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.85268 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mohite, Prashant N.
Rana, Sandip Singh
Sadasivan, Prasanth
Deshpande, Swapnil
Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title_full Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title_fullStr Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title_full_unstemmed Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title_short Thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
title_sort thymectomy through lateralized partial sternotomy
topic Cardiothoracic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22022149
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-3583.85268
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