Video-assisted thoracoscopic vascular ring division in infants and children
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Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Division of Vascular Rings
This study reports our early experience with thoracoscopic division of vascular rings. Three patients were reviewed; their ages at surgery were 25 months, 4 years, and 57 years. All patients were suffering from complete vascular rings involving combinations of the right aortic arch, left ligamentum arteriosum, Kommerell's diverticulum, and retroesophageal left subclavian artery. The median surg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)00461-x