Back to the future: a case series of minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum with regular instruments.
Miguel Lia TeddeSilvia Yukari TogoroRobert Stephen EisingerErica Mie OkumuraAngelo FernandesPaulo Manuel Pêgo FernandesJose Ribas Milanese de CamposPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2019)
In this preliminary study, the rate of complications associated with MIRPERI was comparable to that reported in the literature for MIRPE. The MIRPERI approach has the potential to improve the safety of PE repair, particularly for surgeons that do not have access to certain special instruments or have not been trained in their use.