[Results of operative correction of pigeon and funnel chest following a modified procedure of Ravitch and Haller (author's transl)].
A surgical technique which is a modification of the technique described by Ravitch is presented in detail. We employed it in 441 patients, among them 85% with funnel chest, 11% with pigeon breast and 4% with combined funnel-pigeon breast. The pre- and postoperative measurement of the chest deformity which provides an objective evaluation of the surgical result is described. The postoperative results were in 91% satisfactory and in only 9% unsatisfactory. No postoperative death was observed in the last 420 patients. The overall mortality in the world literature is 0,05%.
D000886:Anthropometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D002648:Child; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D013909:Thorax / Q000002:abnormalities*
Ergebnisse operativer Korrektur von Kiel- und Trichterburst nach einer modifizierten Operationstechnik von Ravitch und Haller.