Repair of Pectus Chest Deformities in 320 Adult Patients: 21 Year Experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 429-433

  Jaroszewski, Dawn E ^a   Fonkalsrud, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERICARDITIS; PIGEON THORAX; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34447562597     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.077     Document Type: Article

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