Valuable lessons from two decades of pectus repair with the Willital-Hegemann procedure

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 871-876

  Saxena, Amulya K ^a   Willital, Gunter H ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTERNAL STABILIZATION; INTRAOPERATIVE CARDIAC ARREST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OSTEOMYELITIS; PIGEON THORAX; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTHORAX; STERNUM; STRUT DISLOCATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DEFORMITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILLITAL HEGEMANN PROCEDURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEMATOMA; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND SEROMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; THORACIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548828259     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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