PHRENIC NERVE SURGERY
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Phrenic nerve injury in infants and children undergoing cardiac surgery.
Fifty infants and 50 children less than 15 years undergoing palliative or corrective cardiac surgery in the Brompton Hospital between March and October 1988 had direct percutaneous stimulation of the phrenic nerve before and after operation. Ten patients, six under 1 year of age and four over, developed unilateral phrenic nerve injury. In those aged less than 1 year recovery after operation was...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1930
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-193002000-00004