Pectus excavatum: resolution after surgical removal of upper airway obstruction.
A six-year-old child with obstruction of the upper airway and a pectus excavatum defect ("funnel chest") is presented. Correction of the funnel-chest deformity was observed four years after the performance of a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy to relieve the obstruction of the upper airway. The relationship between chronic upper-airway obstruction and a pectus excavatum deformity is discussed, and the reversibility of such a deformity is documented.
D000233:Adenoidectomy; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D014068:Tonsillectomy