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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever seen a child with a depression in the center of their chest? Pectus excavatum — known commonly as funnel chest — occurs when the breast bone appears sunken into the chest cavity. It’s ...

Patients who have had the common chest wall deformity known as pectus excavatum corrected report improved body image and ability to exercise, according to a study published December in the journal ...

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, ...