912 Open pectus excavatum repairs: Changing trends, lessons learned: One surgeon's experience

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-190

  Fonkalsrud, Eric W ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; MEDERMA; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPNEA; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNNEL CHEST; HEALTH CENTER; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PIGEON THORAX; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIB CARTILAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROMA; STERNUM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SUTURING METHOD; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149475032     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9793-4     Document Type: Article

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