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Minimally access pectus excavatum repair (Nuss procedure) has been performed in over 1600 patients with severe pectus excavatum at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. Clinical analysis of this large patient series has allowed for identification and quantitation of intraoperative, early- and late-postoperative complications unique to this surgical procedure. Based upon this information, treatment recommendations and preventive strategies for these complications have been generated. Many of these have now been incorporated as modifications to the original surgical technique and have improved overall safety and efficacy.
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Frantz, F., Goretsky, M.J. (2017). Complications of Minimally Access Pectus Excavatum Repair. In: Saxena, A. (eds) Chest Wall Deformities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53088-7_30
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