Cleft Sternum: Case Report and Literature Review

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 375-377

  Abel, R M ^a   Robinson, M ^b   Gibbons, P ^b   Parikh, D H ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sternal cleft; Surgical management

Indexed keywords

BONE MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CLEFT STERNUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIUM; STERNUM;

EID: 1942441582     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.10441     Document Type: Review

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