Bifid sternum

A bifid sternum is a rare congenital anomaly generally diagnosed as asymptomatic at birth. It is sometimes associated with other congenital anomalies. The sternal defects are best corrected surgically during the neonatal period within the first month of life. Sometimes the defect may be diagnosed on...

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Autores principales: Das, Sibes Kumar, Jana, Pulak Kumar, Bairagya, Tapan Das, Ghoshal, Bhaswati
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345921
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92370
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author Das, Sibes Kumar
Jana, Pulak Kumar
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Ghoshal, Bhaswati
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description A bifid sternum is a rare congenital anomaly generally diagnosed as asymptomatic at birth. It is sometimes associated with other congenital anomalies. The sternal defects are best corrected surgically during the neonatal period within the first month of life. Sometimes the defect may be diagnosed only in adult life. We here report a case of bifid sternum which was diagnosed incidentally in a 23-year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-32760422012-02-16 Bifid sternum Das, Sibes Kumar Jana, Pulak Kumar Bairagya, Tapan Das Ghoshal, Bhaswati Lung India Case Report A bifid sternum is a rare congenital anomaly generally diagnosed as asymptomatic at birth. It is sometimes associated with other congenital anomalies. The sternal defects are best corrected surgically during the neonatal period within the first month of life. Sometimes the defect may be diagnosed only in adult life. We here report a case of bifid sternum which was diagnosed incidentally in a 23-year-old male. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3276042/ /pubmed/22345921 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92370 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Das, Sibes Kumar
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title_short Bifid sternum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22345921
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.92370
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