Pectus excavatum is an abnormality of the chest in which the breastbone sinks inward (sometimes called funnel chest). Problems associated with pectus excavatum are mainly cosmetic, although the ...

Pectus bar system is widely used in pectus excavatum minimally invasive procedures, where approximately more than 1 in 1,000 people are affected by most common thoracic deformity. This deformity is ...

Pectus bar system is widely used in pectus excavatum minimally invasive procedures, where approximately more than 1 in 1,000 people are affected by most common thoracic deformity. This deformity is ...

Before the development of the Nuss procedure, correction of pectus excavatum required radical, open chest surgery. In the Nuss Procedure, surgeons insert a curved medal bar through the chest cavity ...

University of Utah Health provides expert care for children, adolescents, and young adults who have chest wall deformities. Specialists at the Utah Pectus Program are experts in pectus deformities ...

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 ...

New surgical and bracing techniques of pectus cartinatum, or pigeon chest were recently presented at international conference on treatment of chest wall deformities. A new minimally invasive surgery ...

This document replaces previous guidance on minimally invasive placement of pectus bar (interventional procedure guidance 3). 1.1 Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of placement of pectus bar ...

Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of ...