Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report

Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by total or partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the right lung to the inferior vena cava. We present a seven year old girl with a systolic murmur who was diagnosed as having a Scimitar syndrome with unusual drainage of the right...

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Autores principales: Nuebel, Julia, Januszewska, Katarzyna, Loeff, Markus, Theisen, Daniel, Malec, Edward, Dalla-Pozza, Robert
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-15
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author Nuebel, Julia
Januszewska, Katarzyna
Loeff, Markus
Theisen, Daniel
Malec, Edward
Dalla-Pozza, Robert
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description Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by total or partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the right lung to the inferior vena cava. We present a seven year old girl with a systolic murmur who was diagnosed as having a Scimitar syndrome with unusual drainage of the right pulmonary veins. The unique technique of surgery in this patient was appropriate to the unusual, previously not described anatomy.
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spelling pubmed-28523782010-04-10 Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report Nuebel, Julia Januszewska, Katarzyna Loeff, Markus Theisen, Daniel Malec, Edward Dalla-Pozza, Robert J Cardiothorac Surg Case report Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by total or partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the right lung to the inferior vena cava. We present a seven year old girl with a systolic murmur who was diagnosed as having a Scimitar syndrome with unusual drainage of the right pulmonary veins. The unique technique of surgery in this patient was appropriate to the unusual, previously not described anatomy. BioMed Central 2010-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2852378/ /pubmed/20338047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-15 Text en Copyright ©2010 Nuebel et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nuebel, Julia
Januszewska, Katarzyna
Loeff, Markus
Theisen, Daniel
Malec, Edward
Dalla-Pozza, Robert
Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report
title Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report
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title_fullStr Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report
title_short Unique technique of surgery in an unusual variety of Scimitar syndrome: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2852378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-15
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