BACKGROUND: Surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE) has become more popular due to improvements in the minimally invasive Nuss procedure. The pre-surgical assessment of PE patients requires Computerized Tomography (CT), as the malformation characteristics vary from patient to patient. OBJECTIVE: This work aims to characterize soft tissue thickness (STT) external to the ribs among PE patients. It also presents ...
Prova tipográfica. ; Thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia has becoming the gold standard in many centers since it allows a better cosmetic result and avoids the musculoskeletal sequelae of a thoracotomy. Natural Orifices Transluminal Endocopic Surgery (NOTES) is a new surgical paradigm and its human application was already started in some procedures. In the present study, we explore the feasibility to pe...
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