Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 675-681 , June 2009

Esophageal atresia: Prognostic classification revisited

  • Tatsuya Okamoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tatsuya Okamoto, MD, Department of Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54-Kawahara-cho, Sho-goin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
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  • Shigeru Takamizawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nagano Children's Hospital, Nagano, Japan
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  • Hiroshi Arai, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
    • ,
  • Yuko Bitoh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
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  • Makoto Nakao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
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  • Akiko Yokoi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan
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  • Eiji Nishijima, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Japan

,Accepted 16 January 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00100-7

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.01.017

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 675-681 , June 2009

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