Cardiac perforation by a pectus bar after surgical correction of pectus excavatum: Case report and review of the literature

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 617-620

  Gips, Hadas ^a,b   Zaitsev, Konstantin ^a,b   Hiss, Jehuda ^a,b  

^a National Center of Forensic Medicine   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac perforation; Death; Nuss procedure; Pectus excavatum; Ravitch repair

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART INJURY; HEART MASSAGE; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORATION; HEMATOTHORAX; HIGHLY MODIFIED RAVITCH REPAIR; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NUSS PROCEDURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; FATAL OUTCOME; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 42149182896     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-007-2097-1     Document Type: Article

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