Indications and technique of nuss procedure for pectus excavatum

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 583-597

  Nuss, Donald ^a   Kelly, Robert E ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Nickel allergy; Nuss procedure; Pectus excavatum; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALGORITHM; BODY IMAGE; BODY POSITION; CARDIOLOGY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EROSION; EXERCISE; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART INDEX; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEMATOTHORAX; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PARALYSIS; PERFORATION; PERICARDITIS; PHENOTYPE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

BODY IMAGE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; THORACOSCOPY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 77958156107     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2010.07.002     Document Type: Review

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