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: Kothari, Shyam S, Murugan, Madhan Kumar, Chowdhury, Ujjwal Kumar
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322401/