NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Surgeons at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) have successfully performed a groundbreaking, minimally invasive surgery on three patients ...

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 the ...

Pectus excavatum or funnel chest is the most prevalent chest wall deformity. Surgical correction is the treatment of choice which is predominantly performed on ...

A condition that you've probably never heard of can wreck a child's health and self-esteem. Pectus, or chest wall deformities, are fairly common. As many as one in 500 kids are born with pectus, which ...

Chest wall deformities such as pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum affect both form and function of the thorax, with potential cardiopulmonary and psychosocial consequences. Over recent decades, the ...

Salem Steward, 14, of Kalispell, is fitted with a T-Joe brace by device inventor Joe Porcello of Pectus Services. The non-surgical treatment is used to correct chest-wall deformity and is available ...

Pectus Excavatum (PE), Pectus Carinatum (PC), Poland Syndrome (PS), Sunken Chest Deformity (SCD), Barrel Chest Deformity (BCD), Body Builder Deformity (BBD), and Long Upper Chest Wall (LCW) are Chest ...

Alli Smith, age 15 at the time, had waited nearly seven years for Dr. Lisa Smith to give the go-ahead. Alli was born with pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum, two chest wall deformities that left ...

Video is available by contacting the source. Newswise — Two-year-old Ariana Martin had a rough start to life. A fraternal twin, she was born without four ribs on her left side, and with several health ...