RT Book, Section
A1 Caso, Raul
A1 Marshall, M. Blair
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Burt, Bryan M.
A2 Groth, Shawn S.
A2 Loor, Gabriel
A2 Wolf, Andrea S.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
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ID 1170415311
T1 Surgical Repair of Complex (Recurrent) Pectus Excavatum in Adults
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170415311
RD 2023/05/30
AB Pectus  excavatum  (PE)  is  the  most  commonly  occurring  chest  wall  deformity.  It  is  thought  to  result  from  unbalanced  growth  of  the  costochondral  regions  of  the  anterior  chest  wall,  leading  to  symmetric  and  asymmetric  abnormalities.1  Meyer  and  Sauerbruch  first  reported  on  the  surgical  repair  of  PE  in  1911  and  1919,  respectively.2,3  In  1949  Ravitch4  set  the  fundamentals  of  PE  surgical  correction,  and  in  1998  Nuss5  introduced  a  minimally  invasive  alternative  to  the  modified  Ravitch  procedure.  The  techniques  for  primary  repair  of  chest  wall  deformities,  including  PE,  are  described  in  Chapter  141.  However,  recurrence  does  occur  with  these  techniques  and  in  experienced  hands,  it  can  range  from  2%  to  10%.