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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dr. Robert Kelly operates on a pediatric patient, he isn’t just fixing a sternum that bows out or caves in. He’s also restoring self-esteem. About 80 percent of his patients are boys age 9 to 14, ...

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 ...

Growing up, Matt Schiff was just like any other kid. However, when he entered his early teenage years, he noticed a difference between him and his friends: he had a deep indentation at the center of ...

There are two forms of chest wall deformities that can be found in children. The most common is pectus excavatum, or funnel chest. This causes the chest to sink in and pushes the breastbone inward.

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 ...