Successful management for repeated bar displacements after Nuss method by two bars connected by a stabilizer

The Nuss method has become the standard surgery for the treatment of funnel chest, and good therapeutic results have been reported. Among the complications of the Nuss method, displacement of the bar is the most frequent, and there are cases in which reoperation is necessary. In this case report, we...

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Autores principales: Yoshida, Kotoku, Kashimura, Tsutomu, Kikuchi, Yuji, Nakazawa, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333773
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/atm.ATM_84_19
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Sumario:The Nuss method has become the standard surgery for the treatment of funnel chest, and good therapeutic results have been reported. Among the complications of the Nuss method, displacement of the bar is the most frequent, and there are cases in which reoperation is necessary. In this case report, we have devised a new stabilizer that connects and fixes two bars as bar displacement occurred following each of the two prior Nuss procedures, and the outcome of our procedure was evaluated.

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