Pectus excavatum causes your breastbone and ribs to grow inward. It is the most common chest wall deformity. Pectus carinatum is less common and causes your breastbone and ribs to jut outward. Some ...

Pectus carinatum is an uncommon birth defect that causes a child's breastbone to protrude outward abnormally. The deformity might not be noticeable until after the adolescent growth spurt.

About 1 in 5,000 people have Marfan syndrome. About three-fourths of cases are genetically inherited, meaning one of the parents has it. If one parent does have it, they have a 50/50 chance, per ...

In pectus excavatum (funnel chest) the sternum is depressed in a concave shape and in pectus carinatum (pigeon chest) the sternum is protruded in a convex shape (Saxena and Willital, 1999). ...

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 ...

Column - Marfan Syndrome is an inherited connective tissue disorder where individuals are characteristically very tall, slender, have a narrow face, loose joints and associated spinal or chest ...

During the conference, Dr. Kelly operated on a pectus carinatum patient, demonstrating "reverse Nuss" procedure, while one of the technique's pioneers, Dr. Patricio Varela of Santiago, Chile ...