Abstract
Complications of pectus excavatum surgery include pneumothorax, pleuritis, hemothorax, pericardial effusion, displacement of bar, pericarditis and cardiac injury, etc. This is the case of a 15-year-old boy with cardiac tamponade caused by pericarditis who had taken the operation for a pectus excavatum repair one year previously. The cause was a sternal wire which was used for attachment of the bar to sternum that had fractured and migrated through the pericardium causing a pericardial injury and a pericarditis.
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Bone Wires / adverse effects*
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Cardiac Tamponade / diagnostic imaging
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Cardiac Tamponade / etiology*
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Cardiac Tamponade / surgery
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Device Removal
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Equipment Design
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Equipment Failure
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Foreign-Body Migration / diagnostic imaging
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Foreign-Body Migration / etiology*
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Foreign-Body Migration / surgery
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Funnel Chest / surgery*
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Heart Injuries / diagnostic imaging
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Heart Injuries / etiology*
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Heart Injuries / surgery
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Humans
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Male
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Pericarditis / diagnostic imaging
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Pericarditis / etiology*
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Pericarditis / surgery
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Pericardium / injuries
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Reoperation
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Time Factors
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Treatment Outcome