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Customised Silicone Prostheses

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Chest wall deformities can be corrected with an array of procedures which include the use of fillers, pedicled muscle flaps and procedures involving alteration of the skeletal structure such as the Ravitch operation. In this chapter we describe the technical highlights, indications, preoperative considerations, surgical technique and the postoperative management of patients undergoing chest wall reconstruction using customised silicone prostheses.

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Saour, S., Mohanna, PN. (2017). Customised Silicone Prostheses. In: Saxena, A. (eds) Chest Wall Deformities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53088-7_43

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