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Nuss Procedure: Decrease in Bar Movement Requiring Reoperation with Primary Placement of Two Bars
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2012-05)Background: The Nuss procedure, first reported in 1998, is currently the treatment of choice for pectus excavatum. The most significant bar-related complication documented is bar movement, requiring reoperation in 3.4%–27% ... -
Pediatric Obesity
(W.B. Saunders, 2012-06)Obesity is a serious life-threatening disease that affects an increasing number of children in the developed world. Obese children suffer in many physical and psychosocial ways and their burden has important consequences ... -
Laparoscopic Ladd's procedure: treatment of choice for midgut malrotation in infants and children
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2010-05)Introduction: Rotational anomalies of the midgut encompass a broad spectrum of incomplete rotational events with malfixation of the intestines during fetal development. Ladd’s procedure, as a correction of these anomalies, ... -
Transumbilical laparoscopically assisted appendectomy: an alternative minimally invasive technique in pediatric patients
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2010-12)Introduction: Transumbilical laparoscopically assisted appendectomy (TULAA) has been reported in the literature as an alternative to traditional three-port laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). Our study compares outcomes between ...