Chest wall constriction after too extensive and too early operations for pectus excavatum

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1618-1625

  Haller Jr , J Alex ^a   Colombani, Paul M ^a   Humphries, C Thomas ^a   Azizkhan, Richard G ^a   Loughlin, Gerald M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN S CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL DEFECT; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0029890610     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00179-8     Document Type: Article

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