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Preferred term

Thoracoplasty  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Scope note

  • Surgical removal of ribs, allowing the chest wall to move inward and collapse a diseased lung. (Dorland, 28th ed)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • rintakehän muovaus
  • rintakehän muovausleikkaus
  • rintakehänmuovaus
  • thoracoplastia
  • torakoplastiikka
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013905

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