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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Main Authors: Shyam S Kothari, Madhan Kumar Murugan, Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-01-01
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