Aortopexy in severe tracheal instability: Short-term and long-term outcome in 29 infants and children

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1898-1901

  Vazquez Jimenez, Jaime F ^a   Sachweh, Jörg S ^b   Liakopoulos, Oliver J ^b   Hügel, Werner ^b   Holzki, Josef ^b   Von Bernuth, Götz ^b   Messmer, Bruno J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b University Hospital ^*

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA OCCLUSION; AORTA SURGERY; APNEA; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORAX WALL; TRACHEA DISEASE; WOUND HEALING;

AORTA, THORACIC; APNEA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STERNUM; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRACHEAL DISEASES;

EID: 0035665761     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)03233-7     Document Type: Article

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