Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 205, Issue 2 , Pages 205-216 , August 2007

Prospective Multicenter Study of Surgical Correction of Pectus Excavatum: Design, Perioperative Complications, Pain, and Baseline Pulmonary Function Facilitated by Internet-Based Data Collection

Presented at the meeting of the American Pediatric Surgical Association, Orlando, FL, May 2007.

Received 21 November 2006 ,Revised 19 March 2007 ,Accepted 19 March 2007.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.Supported by a grant from Children’s Health Foundation (Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters). REK received an unrestricted grant in support of this study from Walter Lorenz Surgical, Inc, and DN is a consultant for Walter Lorenz Surgical, Inc. Neither CHF nor Walter Lorenz was involved with conduct of the study, data analysis, or dissemination.Participants in the Multicenter Pectus Excavatum Outcomes Study are listed in Appendix 1.

PII: S1072-7515(07)00478-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.03.027

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 205, Issue 2 , Pages 205-216 , August 2007

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