Spontaneous expectoration of a Blalock-Taussig shunt a decade after operation
An eleven-year-old boy expectorated a foreign body in cough that was identified as the prosthetic graft used for a Blalock-Taussig shunt. The shunt procedure was done 10 years earlier, and a definitive repair for tetralogy of Fallot was done a year later. He had no other symptoms, and a computed tom...
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Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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Series: | Annals of Pediatric Cardiology |
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Online Access: | http://www.annalspc.com/article.asp?issn=0974-2069;year=2015;volume=8;issue=1;spage=47;epage=49;aulast=Kothari |