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Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 2:70-72(2003)
© 2003 European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Case report - Thoracic general

Thoracoscopic thymectomy with the ‘da Vinci’ surgical system in patient with myasthenia gravis

Federico Rea*, Luigi Bortolotti, Rodolfo Girardi and Francesco Sartori

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani, 2, 35128 Padua, Italy

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +39-49-8212-237; fax: +39-49-8212-249
federico.rea{at}unipd.it

We report a thoracoscopic thymectomy performed completely with a robotic surgical system: ‘da Vinci surgical system’, in a 23-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis.

Key Words: Myasthenia gravis (MG); Thymectomy; Technique; Robotic surgery




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