Chest Wall DeformitiesPigeon chest, or sunken chest, is the common term to describe the two common types of chest wall deformities. The medical terms are pectus excavatum (sunken) and pectus carinatum ...
Philadelphia, PA, August 13, 2015 --(PR.com)-- It’s hard to come across a 16 year old girl who doesn’t have at least one insecurity. “I didn’t really notice until I was a teenager that I had a pretty ...
New surgical and bracing techniques of pectus cartinatum, or pigeon chest were recently presented at international conference on treatment of chest wall deformities. A new minimally invasive surgery ...
The minimally invasive pectus carinatum surgery described by Abramson has been performed in many centers. We modified the "sub-muscular tunnel creation" part of the original Abramson technique. To ...
Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of ...
Paramus, NJ, January 22, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Dr. Barry E. LoSasso, a leading pectus surgery specialist and pediatric surgeon, founder of the successful West Coast Center of Excellence for Pectus, has ...
Case: A 14 year-old boy presents to his primary care pediatrician because of a recent inability to keep up with his peers on his high school basketball team. His parents wanted him to try out for the ...
A new minimally invasive surgery to correct a chest wall deformity -- often known as pigeon chest -- was demonstrated Friday at an international conference attended by surgeons from the U.S., Canada, ...
NORFOLK, VA. –- A new minimally invasive surgery to correct a chest wall deformity -- often known as pigeon chest -- was demonstrated Friday at an international conference attended by surgeons from ...