[Association of cardiac and sternal malformations].
Authors has studied association between cardiac and sternal anomalies, in a series of 2,000 cases of congenital heart disease. He finds an incidence of pectus excavatum of 2.5% and pectus carinatum of 3%. Associative differences were highlysignificant, mainly that between Fallot tetralogy and pectus carinatum. Possible mechanisms responsible for those associations are discussed.
Sánchez Cascos
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Departamento de Cardiología y Genética, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid.
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male
Asociación de malformaciones cardiacas y esternales.