Surgical correction of tracheo-oesophageal fistula and oesophageal atresia in infants with VACTERL association: A retrospective case-control study

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 967-970

  Morgan, Robert D ^a   O'Callaghan, John M ^a   Wagener, Silke ^a   Grant, Hugh W ^a   Lakhoo, Kokila ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oesophageal atresia; Tracheo oesophageal fistula; VACTERL association

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRACHEOMALACIA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANAL CANAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRACHEA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 84866678841     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-012-3165-8     Document Type: Article

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