| 1. | It is distinct from the related deformity pectus excavatum.
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| 2. | It's called pectus excavatum or " funnel chest ."
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| 3. | Many Pectus Excavatum patients exhibit psychological symptoms associated with the cosmetic appearance of their disorder.
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| 4. | Pectus excavatum is differentiated from other disorders by a series of elimination of signs and symptoms.
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| 5. | It is also associated with growth retardation, megaloblastic anemia, pectus excavatum, scoliosis, vomiting, diarrhea, and hepatosplenomegaly.
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| 6. | Pectus excavatum also occurs in about 1 % of persons diagnosed with celiac disease for unknown reasons.
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| 7. | Kyphoscoliosis is excluded by diagnostic imaging of the spine, where in pectus excavatum the spine usually appears normal in structure.
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| 8. | Many children with spinal muscular atrophy develop pectus excavatum due to the diaphragmatic breathing that is common with the disease.
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| 9. | Pectus carinatum is rarer than pectus excavatum, another pectus disorder, occurring in only about 20 % of people with pectus deformities.
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| 10. | "' Pectus excavatum "'is a congenital deformity of the anterior thoracic wall in which the sternum and rib cage grow abnormally.
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