منابع مشابه
[Surgical treatment of funnel chest].
The main problems of indication, operating techniques and results are recalled after 39 cases of pectus excavatum (P.E.) operated on 74 followed up children. Analysis revealed frequent family trend, respiratory past records of Marfan's morphological type and intrathoracic spur. Sternochondroplasty had varied stabilizing ways : first Garnier's technique, then Judet's costal clips, today the medi...
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During the last decades it has been commonly accepted that funnel chest is such a serious cosmetic handicap that it deserves correction for this reason alone. A group of patients with this deformity, operated upon by the method of Paltia (transsternal fixation with metal struts), was re-examined 5 to 10 years postoperatively. In more than 50% of the cases the immediate acceptable cosmetic resul...
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The operative correction of the funnel chest is a difficult and important problem. Quite a number of methods and modifications have been mentioned. Late results, however, do not always come up to expectation. As a seriously deformed funnel chest may lead to troubles of the functions of the lungs and heart (Wegmann and Schaub, 1953; Schaub and Wegmann, 1954) operations should be limited to such ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-195211000-00004