Oesophageal atresia: What has changed in the last 3 decades?

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 768-772

  Tönz, Martin ^a   Köhli, Sandra ^a   Kaiser, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Oesophageal atresia; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11244251027     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-004-1139-1     Document Type: Article

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