Esophageal atresia: Primary repair of a rare long gap variant involving distal pouch mobilization

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1881-1883

  Davison, Patrick ^a   Poenaru, Dan ^a,b   Kamal, Ihab ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Esophageal atresia; Primary repair

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; HUMAN; MYOTOMY; NEWBORN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033404518     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(99)90340-8     Document Type: Article

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