title: Scoliosis in children with pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum.
abstract: Between 1974 and 1985, 461 patients with pectus excavatum and 135 patients with pectus carinatum underwent operative repair of their anterior chest wall deformities. Twenty-one percent of patients with anterior chest wall deformity had mild scoliosis by clinical and radiographic examination. The average lateral spinal deformity was 15 degrees (range 6-78 degrees) for pectus excavatum patients and 16 degrees (range 5-57 degrees) for pectus carinatum patients. Eighteen percent of the pectus excavatum patients with scoliosis and 14% of the pectus carinatum patients with scoliosis required therapeutic intervention of bracing and/or arthrodesis.
authors: Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Waters
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Welch
authors: L J
authors: LJ
authors: Micheli
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Shamberger
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Hall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D012272:Ribs / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D012307:Risk Factors; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery