Pectus excavatum is a type of chest wall deformity. It causes your chest to look sunken or indented. This sunken shape is why people sometimes call the condition funnel chest. Pectus excavatum causes ...

No matter the surgery, preparing for an approaching surgery can be stressful and frightening for you and especially your child. But with some age-appropriate teaching, reassurances, and support--that ...

DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - One in 400 babies born today will have a deformity called pectus excavatum - or sunken chest. While most of the defects are improved before the baby turns one, some ...

A study published in August in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) confirms what many parents have long feared. This study, which should be front-page news, shows that thousands of ...

DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – One in 400 babies born today will have a deformity called pectus excavatum, or sunken chest. While most of the defects are improved before the baby turns one, some ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Children’s Hospital Colorado has stopped performing chest reconstruction on transgender patients, though it will continue to offer non-surgical ...

Twin girls joined at abdomen survived lengthy surgery to be separated. — -- Twin girls born conjoined at the chest and abdomen were successfully separated after an 18-hour surgery that involved ...