Chest Wall Deformities in Pediatric Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 669-684

  Obermeyer, Robert J ^a,b   Goretsky, Michael J ^a,b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Chest wall deformities; Nuss procedure; Pectus carinatum; Pectus excavatum

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BRACE; BREATHING; BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNNEL CHEST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HERNIOPLASTY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PIGEON THORAX; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SKIN IRRITATION; SPIROMETRY; STERNAL CLEFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; THORAX DEFORMITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

CHILD; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; STERNUM; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACIC WALL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861008618     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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