When a UCSF Children's Hospital surgeon suggested an untested treatment to correct Richard Nave's congenital chest defect, his mother was, naturally, concerned for her son's safety. But as soon as ...

HOUSTON – (April 13, 2023) – Body image can have a significant impact on a person’s life, especially in their youth. For those suffering from rib flaring associated with congenital deformations of the ...

New surgical and bracing techniques of pectus cartinatum, or pigeon chest were recently presented at international conference on treatment of chest wall deformities. A new minimally invasive surgery ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — In an exam room at East ...

NORFOLK, VA -- Surgeons at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) have fitted a patient with a device that might eliminate the need for surgery in some patients with one of the world's ...

Can you imagine being a teenage boy, living at the beach, and not having enough confidence to take your shirt off and not having enough energy to even take a walk? The condition is called concave ...

Pectus excavatum is a developmental issue with the chest in which the sternum or breastbone caves inward and creates a sunken appearance. It is also known as cobbler’s chest or funnel chest. Pectus ...

Friday morning in an exam room at East Tennessee Children's Hospital, all eyes were on 14-year-old Tinsley Allen as he became the first patient in Tennessee — and one of the first in the nation — to ...