Pectus excavatum (PE) is a common chest wall deformity characterized by a sunken appearance of the sternum. This condition can lead to various physical and psychological issues, prompting many ...

According to Boston Children's Hospital, pectus excavatum, sometimes referred to as concave chest or funnel chest, is a deformity of the chest wall in which a person's sternum, or breastbone ...

Pectus excavatum (PE) is relatively common and accounts for approximately 90% of congenital chest wall deformities. Despite known underlying problems associated with PE, however, including dyspnea ...

The deformity ... with pectus excavatum. It has also been used in a minimally invasive procedure (the first ever, as far as Tedde is aware) to repair pectus carinatum (pigeon chest), in which ...

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