The Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum: An effective and safe approach using bilateral thoracoscopy and a selective approach to use multiple bars in 296 adolescent and adult patients

• Po-Cheng Lo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• I-Shiang Tzeng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9047-8141

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• Min-Shiau Hsieh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Mei-Chen Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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• Bo-Chun Wei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Yeung-Leung Cheng

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ndmc0928@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1911-1419

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