Two decades of Nuss procedure outcomes: Refinements in groundbreaking surgery for chest deformity
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 13:32
in Health & Medicine
Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of care and continually refined to increase its effectiveness and safety, according to a paper published in the December issue of the Annals of Surgery.