Up to 4% of all infants are born with a structural or genetic difference — often called a congenital abnormality — that can alter how the body looks or functions. Pectus excavatum is the most common ...

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 ...

Pectus excavatum is a type of chest wall deformity. It causes your chest to look sunken or indented. This sunken shape is why people sometimes call the condition funnel chest. Pectus excavatum causes ...

Carson Sudbeck didn't think much about his concave chest until he was scrolling TikTok and discovered corrective surgery Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to ...

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 ...

We've noticed an indent in our son's chest since he was about 6 years old. Our pediatrician diagnosed this as pectus excavatum but said that it was nothing to worry about. Six years later, he's ...

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 ...

Pectus excavatum is a developmental issue with the chest in which the sternum or breastbone caves inward and creates a sunken appearance. It is also known as cobbler’s chest or funnel chest. Pectus ...

The use of postoperative antimicrobial prophylaxis was not associated with improved clinical outcomes in pediatric patients undergoing minimally invasive pectus excavatum repair — an operative ...