Congenital Thoracic Wall Deformities Diagnosis, Therapy and Current
These congenital deformities, funnel or keel chest deformities, as well as Poland syndromes, affect a small group of patients who suffer from aesthetic rather than functional impairment. The wide variety of diagnoses and recommended therapies, mostly surg
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Congenital Thoracic Wall Deformities Diagnosis, Therapy and Current Developments
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Anton H. Schwabegger, MS, MSc, Assoc. Prof. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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Preface
Several publications, case reports, reviews, and new surgical techniques, either as modifications or new developments of the pectus excavatum or carinatum surgery have inundated the literature databases over the past decade. The shear quantity of individual publications on the most varied technologies impedes the appropriate flow of information from the primary therapist to the patient and his or her parents, and sometimes is even confusing for the physician or surgeon himself/herself. To date, no comprehensive work with an overview of the current surgical, comparatively rare or non-surgical alternative treatment possibilities is available. Therefore, with this interdisciplinary work we made it our task, while making no claims to completeness, to create an overview of diagnostic measures, therapeutic options and the follow-up treatment of congenital thoracic wall deformities.
This work is dedicated to all the authors for their valuable and precious contributions to the further development and promotion of diagnostic and therapeutic options in the treatment of patients suffering from such strains. We are also exceptionally grateful to the photographers Karin Langert and Angelika Feichter for their distinctive art and high-quality photo documentation. Equally we have to express our thanks to Professor Werner Jaschke and his team from the Department of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck for the generation of sophisticated radiologic imaging and their readiness to provide us with
