When Brock Jones took his shirt off at a pool party with some friends last summer, he didn't think twice about his sunken chest cavity—until a friend pointed it out. "Why is there a big hole in your ...

Shawwaf et al. should be commended for their thorough analysis of a large cohort undergoing complex revision surgeries. Their findings underscore the critical need for centralization of revisional ...

Dr. Jeff Dehmer sees multiple patients each year who have a condition called pectus excavatum, where a person’s chest bows in and can slowly start to compress the heart and lungs. The pediatric ...

Oct. 22, 2002 (Boston) - Children who undergo surgery to correct pectus excavatum report significant improvement in their quality of life, according to findings reported at the American Academy of ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) Poland Syndrome and Pectus Excavatum are both congenital malformations of the chest wall and can affect both men and women. Both can make individuals that suffer from either malady ...

Have you ever seen a child with a depression in the center of their chest? Pectus excavatum — known commonly as funnel chest — occurs when the breast bone appears sunken into the chest cavity. It’s ...

Pectus excavatum or funnel chest is a deformity that can cause a child’s ribs and breastbone to grow inward giving the chest wall a sunken appearance. In some cases the condition is merely cosmetic, ...

Patients who have had surgical correction of a chest wall deformity commonly known as funnel chest report marked improvement in body image and ability to exercise, according to a new study. Patients ...

Dustin Lurvey is feeling pretty good for a guy with a steel bar inside him, pushing out his ribcage. Before he had the bar surgically inserted a month ago, Lurvey lived 38 years with a dent in the ...