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Dysmorphology of chest wall deformities: frequency distribution of subtypes of typical pectus excavatum and rare subtypes.
Archivos de bronconeumologia - 1 May 2013
Kelly Robert E, Quinn Amy, Varela Patricio, Redlinger Richard E, Nuss Donald
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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: More than forty percent of patients with pectus excavatum have a family history of chest deformity. However, no studies of the frequency of the different phenotypes of pectus excavatum have been published. METHODS: A random sample of 300 non-syndromic pectus excavatum patients, from the chest wall deformities clinic at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, Va., was studied...
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