Twenty-one years of experience with minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum by the Nuss procedure in 1215 patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1072-1081

  Kelly, Robert E ^a   Goretsky, Michael J ^a   Obermeyer, Robert ^a   Kuhn, Marcia Ann ^a   Redlinger, Richard ^a   Haney, Tina S ^a   Moskowitz, Alan ^a   Nuss, Donald ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; TITANIUM;

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; NUSS PROCEDURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCOLIOSIS; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; INFANT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650132123     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181effdce     Document Type: Article

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