thoracotomy
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thoracotomies
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Her condition improved following a further thoracotomy a month later and the University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street was planning to discharge her, the inquest heard.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
Ms Davis had undergone a thoracotomy operation - a surgical procedure where the chest wall is opened - in the February before her death.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
After the operation, he suffered from thoracotomy syndrome “where it feels like your nerves are on fire inside of you, they won’t meld together. It’s just horrible.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2019
Both Boston Children’s and Mass General, which funded its thoracotomy simulator with a grant from the Department of Defense, plan to sell their simulators and educational training programs to other teaching hospitals across the world.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
The recent developments in thoracic surgery have greatly decreased the operative mortality of thoracotomy, so that this operation is to be considered when bronchoscopy has failed.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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