A simple approach to takedown of a modified Blalock shunt.
We describe a simple and rapid technique for takedown of right-sided modified Blalock shunts involving a blunt approach between the pericardium and the pleura. We have used this method successfully on either side in 47 cases.
Metras
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Children's Hospital La Timone, Marseille, France.
Kreitmann
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B
Riberi
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A
Tapia
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M
D001166:Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans