Repair of a large congenital diaphragmat
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Rui F. Barbosa; Jorge Rodrigues; Jorge Correia-Pinto; AntΓ³nio Costa-Ferreira; Au
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Advances in neonatal care have led to an increase in the survival rate of children with large congenital diaphragmatic defects. Reconstruction by direct closure is not usually possible and surgical correction in the newborn consists of synthetic patch closure. Recurrence and complicatio