Abstract
Pectus excavatum, "funnel chest," is the most common congenital chest wall deformity and is characterized by a depression of the sternum and the lower costal cartilages resulting in a decrease in the anteroposterior diameter of the chest.
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Chen, Y. J., & Hirose, S. (2016). Pectus excavatum. In Surgery for Chest Wall Deformities (pp. 7–18). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43926-6_2
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