To compare the surgery and conservative treatment of multiple fractured ribs, we designed a randomized controlled trial in the single center of thoracic surgery ward. After admission condition assessment (general clinical evaluation, operation condition assessment, the digital method of pain assessment), the selected multiple fractured rib patients were told to choose surgery or conservative tr...

Chest wall surgery is a new specialty, which comes from the traditional thoracic but it has characteristics. Because chest must consider appearance of wall, can be regarded as plastic surgery. In addition, because every kind disease involves changes bony structures also orthopedics. The concepts and orthopedics have injected thinking into played positive role in its final healthy development. T...

The complex thoracic deformity has both protrusion and depression on the chest wall, its appearance is complex. It difficult to complete correction by ordinary surgical methods. In early years, this kind of needed be treated open surgery. After entering era minimally invasive surgery, operation also gradually invasive, it can completed through combination different operations. Mild deformities ...

BACKGROUND Standard imaging methods in evaluating chest wall deformities, such as Pectus Excavatum (PE) in paediatric and adolescent patients, include baseline 2-view chest radiography and chest CT scan. Only few studies to date investigated the value of fast MRIin the pre operative assessment of patient affected by PE. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of chest fast MRI in pre-operative man...

Severe asymmetric pectus excavatum surgery is a technique challenging operation, and it difficult to obtain good results using general Nuss procedure. In order ensure the success of we used special for correction, which Wung procedure designed. Due serious deformity, very correct directly. reduce difficulty, use preshaping in our can fully soften bony structures chest wall depression lay founda...

Pediatric chest wall abnormalities are defined as any structural abnormality affecting the sternum, ribs, musculature, or thoracic spine, which alters the normal structure or limits the function of the thorax [1]. Of these deformities, pectus excavatum and carinatum are the most common sporadic malformations with both physiologic and psychological implications in patients affected. In some case...

Pectus excavatum, the most frequent congenital chest wall deformity, may be rarely observed as a sole deformity or as a sign of an underlying connective tissue disorder. To date, only few studies have described correlations between this deformity and heritable connective tissue disorders such as Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos, Poland, MASS (Mitral valve prolapse, not progressive Aortic enlargement, Skel...

Pectus excavatum has never been reported to cause hypercapnic respiratory failure. In this report, we describe the first such case in a young woman with severe pectus excavatum who presented with chronic respiratory acidosis, pulmonary hypertension, and chronic cor pulmonale. An extensive diagnostic workup failed to uncover any other cause of respiratory acidosis, which led us to conclude that ...