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Chest wall surgery for asphyxiating thoracic surgery
Author(s) -
Davis Terrance
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
pediatric pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1099-0496
pISSN - 8755-6863
DOI - 10.1002/ppul.70083
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiothoracic surgery , surgery , thoracic wall , corrective surgery
Our experience to date suggests that LTE is a safe and effective treatment of symptomatic patients with ATD. Patients uniformly are clinically improved. Measured increases in thoracic volume are offset by overall increases in body size keeping the percent of predicted volumes low, suggesting mechanisms other than pure thoracic volume increase to explain the observed clinical improvement. Long term follow-up is mandatory.