Increase in intrathoracic volume in pectus excavatum patients after the Nuss procedure.

In this study, we present finite element analysis models to calculate the increase in intrathoracic volume of pectus excavatum patients after the Nuss procedure. One virtue of our approach is that the measurement of the intrathoracic volume has no time difference and is not affected by postoperative...

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Published in:	Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 133 - 138
Main Authors:	Chang PY, Hsu ZY, Lai JY, Wang CJ, Ching YT, Chang, Pei-Yeh, Hsu, Zhen-Yu, Lai, Jin-Yao, Wang, Chao-Jan, Ching, Yu-Tai
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2010
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost