Radiological assessment of children with pectus excavatum

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-147

  Kilda, Arturas ^a   Basevicius, Algidas ^a   Barauskas, Vidmantas ^a   Lukosevicius, Saulius ^a   Ragaisis, Donatas ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Chest wall deformation indices; Children; Funnel chest; Pectus excavatum; Preoperative radiological assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNUM; THORAX; THORAX DEFORMITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA BODY; X RAY ANALYSIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947720639     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-007-0007-0     Document Type: Article

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