Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 4-10 , 2011

Extracardiac Versus Intra-Atrial Lateral Tunnel Fontan: Extracardiac is Better

Presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery 90th Annual Meeting, May 1-5, 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Carl Lewis Backer

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Carl L. Backer, MD, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, mc 22, Chicago, IL 60614
    • ,
  • Barbara J. Deal

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Children's Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Sunjay Kaushal

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Hyde M. Russell

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Sabrina Tsao

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Children's Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Constantine Mavroudis

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

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 Dr Backer reports receiving fees from Synthe Med. Dr Deal reports receiving fees from Medtronic.

PII: S1092-9126(11)00020-2

doi: 10.1053/j.pcsu.2011.01.019

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 4-10 , 2011

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