title: Thoracoscopic closure of a congenital partial pericardial defect.
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.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamagishi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohtaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohki
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morishita
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004724:Endoscopy; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D013906:Thoracoscopy