Difficulties and limitations in minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum — 6 years experiences with Nuss technique | Zendy

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Difficulties and limitations in minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum — 6 years experiences with Nuss technique

Author(s) -

Józef Dzielicki,

Wojciech Korlacki,

Irena Janicka,

E DZIELICKA

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.08.004

Subject(s) - pectus excavatum , nuss procedure , medicine , funnel chest , surgery , parasternal line , pectus carinatum , thoracoscopy , median sternotomy

In 1998, Dr Donald Nuss proposed minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE) which did not require the osteochondrous parts of the anterior chest wall to be resected. The paper aims at presenting the authors' own 6 years of experience in funnel chest repair with MIRPE technique. Also, many technical problems of this method are discussed.

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