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Thoracoscopic closure of a congenital partial pericardial defect
T Yamagishi1, S Ishikawa, I Yoshida
1Second Department of Surgery, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan.
Surgery Today
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
We describe our technique for performing direct thoracoscopic closure of a congenital partial pericardial defect, which was successfully employed in a 15-year-old boy. This is the first such report of a procedure that is noninvasive and may therefore become the treatment of choice for patients with a small congenital pericardial defect.