In pectus carinatum (pigeon chest), the sternum sticks out like a ridge on the chest. (medscape.com)
External braces have also been used in the nonoperative management of pectus excavatum, but no experience with this approach in the treatment of chest wall deformities in North America has been reported. (medscape.com)
Pectus carinatum is more likely to improve with the consistent use of an external brace because the exogenous compression of the sternum and anterior ribs by the brace may, over time, result in some degree of correction of the deformity. (medscape.com)
Closure of the anterior chest wall incision used for the open type of repair of pectus excavatum (Ravitch operation). (medscape.com)
Congenital1
It shows the extensive dissection and the radical nature of this open technique for surgical correction of this congenital chest wall deformity. (medscape.com)
Deformities1
Chest wall deformities can have a significant impact on respiratory dynamics. (medscape.com)
Large2
A turbine including blades and a generator may be coupled to the small end of the funnel to convert air flowing through the funnel from the large opening end to the small opening end into electricity. (sindacucar.com.br)
in other cases short, wide tubes with a large funnel serving also entirely or in part as gonad ducts. (yourdictionary.com)
Small1
Note the drain (small tubing) coming out on the side of the chest. (medscape.com)
Thin2
The sieve tubes contain a thin lining layer of protoplasm on their walls, but no nuclei, and the cell sap contains albuminous substances which are coagulable by heat. (yourdictionary.com)
They are very thin-walled membranes, very poor in blood-vessels, formed by the bulged-out pleural or peritoneal covering of the lungs, through the parabronchial tubes of which they are filled with air. (yourdictionary.com)