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 ...

The diagnosis of pectus excavatum can be made by simple observation or recognition of an inward displacement of the sternum and anterior chest wall. Radiographic imaging can identify more subtle cases ...

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 ...

A common deformity that cases a depression in the chest wall inhibits lung function as the cavity grows deeper, a national study of 327 patients published in the Journal of Pediatrics found. "These ...

An assistant professor of thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai, Dr. Andrew Kaufman specializes in treating disorders of the chest wall — including pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum. He treats 50 ...

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.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Our son has pectus excavatum, and although he always struggled some to keep up with his friends, he has been involved in athletics since childhood. His pediatrician had said that the ...

Olympic swimmer Cody Miller was diagnosed with a rare lung deformity when he was only 10 years old. Miller’s condition, which is referred to as pectus excavatum, makes the chest appear caved in and ...

Carson Sudbeck was born with a concave chest. “When I was younger, it definitely was not very prominent — you could just barely tell it was there," says Carson, 16. "And as I grew, the hole also grew ...

Patients with a common chest deformity known as sunken chest exhibit abnormal breathing patterns. The findings were the result of a side-by-side comparison of patients with normal chests and patients ...

Pectus excavatum is amenable to corrective surgical procedures, with a positive response to surgery seen in over 90% of cases. Surgery is best performed prior to adolescence as the chest wall is still ...

A common deformity that cases a depression in the chest wall inhibits lung function as the cavity grows deeper, a national study of 327 patients has found. A common deformity that cases a depression ...