Review ArticleClinical Review
Current Management of Pectus Excavatum: A Review and Update of Therapy and Treatment Recommendations
Dawn Jaroszewski, David Notrica, Lisa McMahon, D. Eric Steidley and Claude Deschamps
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine March 2010, 23 (2) 230-239; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2010.02.090234
Dawn Jaroszewski
MD
David Notrica
MD
Lisa McMahon
MD
D. Eric Steidley
MD

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Current Management of Pectus Excavatum: A Review and Update of Therapy and Treatment Recommendations
Dawn Jaroszewski, David Notrica, Lisa McMahon, D. Eric Steidley, Claude Deschamps
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Mar 2010, 23 (2) 230-239; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.02.090234
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