When Brock Jones took his shirt off at a pool party with some friends last summer, he didn't think twice about his sunken chest cavity—until a friend pointed it out. "Why is there a big hole in your ...

Salt Lake City, Utah (Good Things Utah) — Katie W. Russell, MD, is a pediatric surgeon with solid interests in pediatric trauma, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), chest wall deformity, fetal ...

Shawwaf et al. should be commended for their thorough analysis of a large cohort undergoing complex revision surgeries. Their findings underscore the critical need for centralization of revisional ...

Dr. Jeff Dehmer sees multiple patients each year who have a condition called pectus excavatum, where a person’s chest bows in and can slowly start to compress the heart and lungs. The pediatric ...

Oct. 22, 2002 (Boston) - Children who undergo surgery to correct pectus excavatum report significant improvement in their quality of life, according to findings reported at the American Academy of ...

Have you ever seen a child with a depression in the center of their chest? Pectus excavatum — known commonly as funnel chest — occurs when the breast bone appears sunken into the chest cavity. It’s ...

Pectus excavatum or funnel chest is a deformity that can cause a child’s ribs and breastbone to grow inward giving the chest wall a sunken appearance. In some cases the condition is merely cosmetic, ...

Patients who have had surgical correction of a chest wall deformity commonly known as funnel chest report marked improvement in body image and ability to exercise, according to a new study. Patients ...

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 ...

When a UCSF Children's Hospital surgeon suggested an untested treatment to correct Richard Nave's congenital chest defect, his mother was, naturally, concerned for her son's safety. But as soon as ...