Overgrowth of costal cartilage is not the etiology of pectus excavatum

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2015-2018

  Nakaoka, Tatsuo ^a   Uemura, Sadashige ^a   Yoshida, Tatsuyuki ^a   Tanimoto, Terutaka ^a   Miyake, Hiromu ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Costal cartilage length; Etiology; Overgrowth of costal cartilage; Pectus excavatum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; SEX RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARTILAGE DISEASES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; RIBS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957761053     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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