You may first notice a chest wall deformity when your child is 1–2 years old. The condition may be mild at first, but it can get worse as your child nears puberty. Our surgeons in the Utah Pectus ...

The pigeon chest brace applies gentle pressure to the chest wall, gradually reshaping it as a child grows. “If we can get these kids to wear it 16 to 20 hours a day, we can correct the carinatum in ...

Justin has the most common chest wall deformity called pectus excavatum, a congenital disorder which causes the chest to have a sunken or "caved in" appearance. “The new clinic is one stop shopping in ...

Lung function declines as chest deformity deepens Date: August 18, 2011 Source: Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters Summary: A common deformity that cases a depression in the chest wall ...

In the early postoperative period, anterior chest wall numbness after open reduction internal fixation of displaced clavicle fractures was very common and may remain high 1 year postoperatively ...

A new minimally invasive surgery to correct a chest wall deformity -- often known as pigeon chest -- was demonstrated March 27 at an international conference attended by surgeons from the U.S ...

As many as one in 500 kids are born with pectus, which either causes the chest wall to appear sunken in or to protrude. When corrective braces don’t work, there is a surgical solution.

A non-surgical device that corrects chest-wall deformities is now available at Kalispell Regional Healthcare, and 14-year-old Salem Steward was first in line to get the brace this week.

NORFOLK If you can visualize the suction cup an auto shop uses to pop out a dent in a car door, you can imagine the device 13-year-old Austin Hinton was outfitted with Wednesday at a local children… ...

CHEST03_025_LH.JPG There's a new, minimally-invasive technique involving magnets that can treat the "sunken chest" syndrome, a congenital deformity that causes people's chests to cave below the ...