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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1462
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Effect of right anterolateral thoracotomy on breast development and scoliosis

John S. Murala, MCh, Ravi Agarwal, MCh, Kotturathu Mammen Cherian, MS, DSc(Hons), FRACS

International Centre for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai, India

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article "The Influence of Right Anterolateral Thoracotomy in Prepubescent Female Patients on Late Breast Development and on the Incidence of Scoliosis" by Bleiziffer and associates.1 We agree with the authors that the right anterolateral thoracotomy should be abandoned in prepubescent female patients. In fact, we have been using a limited posterior thoracotomy incision for correction of simple congenital heart defects . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Sabine Bleiziffer, Christian Schreiber, and Ruediger Lange
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2005 129: 1462. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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