Salt Lake City, Utah (Good Things Utah) — Katie W. Russell, MD, is a pediatric surgeon with solid interests in pediatric trauma, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), chest wall deformity, fetal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pectus excavatum or funnel chest is a deformity that can cause a child’s ribs and breastbone to grow inward giving the chest wall a sunken appearance. In some cases the condition is merely cosmetic, ...

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

Researchers at UCSF Children’s Hospital in San Francisco have launched a groundbreaking study to determine whether a new procedure using magnets can correct sunken chest, the most common congenital ...

Spinal implant company L&K Biomed announced on the 24th that Dr. Masahiko Noguchi, an authority on pectus excavatum surgery at Nagano Prefectural Children's Specialized Hospital in Japan, visited its ...

If your child has concerns about the appearance of theirpectus carinatum, your doctor might recommend a chest brace to correct the pigeon-chested look that the condition causes. They may refer you to ...