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Volume 41, Issue 7 , Pages 1219-1225 , July 2006

Reliability of a standardized protocol to calculate cross-sectional chest area and severity indices to evaluate pectus excavatum

M. Louise Lawson
- Center for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
- Department of Surgery, Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Myra Barnes-Eley
- Center for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Bonnie L. Burke
- Center for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biometry Core, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Karen Mitchell
- Center for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Michael E. Katz
- Department of Radiology, Imaging Consultants of South Florida, West Boca Raton Medical Center, West Boca Raton, FL, USA
Christopher L. Dory
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Stephen F. Miller
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Donald Nuss
- Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Daniel P. Croitoru
- Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Michael J. Goretsky
- Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Robert E. Kelly Jr
- Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
- Corresponding author. Pediatric Surgery, 601 Children's Lane. Suite SB, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA. Tel.: +1 757 668 7703; fax: +1 757 668 8860.

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