Although surgery is needed only in more severe cases, the operation that has been available since 1910 to correct pectus is brutal.
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Pectus carinatum is rarer than pectus excavatum, another pectus disorder, occurring in only about 20 % of people with pectus deformities.
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Pectus carinatum is rarer than pectus excavatum, another pectus disorder, occurring in only about 20 % of people with pectus deformities.
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Pectus carinatum is rarer than pectus excavatum, another pectus disorder, occurring in only about 20 % of people with pectus deformities.
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Pectus carinatum is rarer than pectus excavatum, another pectus disorder, occurring in only about 20 % of people with pectus deformities.
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"' Pectus excavatum "'is a congenital deformity of the anterior thoracic wall in which the sternum and rib cage grow abnormally.
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In the 1980s, CHKD surgeon Donald Nuss developed a procedure to correct pectus excavatum, and CHKD remains a leading center for the Nuss procedure.
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Roughly 20 % of patients with SCSFLS exhibit features of Marfan syndrome, including tall stature, hollowed chest ( pectus excavatum ), arched palate.
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Miller has pectus excavatum, a deformity of the thoracic wall which causes the chest to cave in due to the sternum and rib cage growing abnormally.
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Studies using sonography have shown post-operative changes in many patients such as an acute angulation of the costochondral junction and rib fractures near the pectus bar.
