Congenital sternal cleft.
A cleft of the sternum is a rare congenital anomaly. We present a case of a sternal cleft in a 7-year-old boy. A split iliac bone graft covered with the sternocostal portion of a pectoralis major flap was used to reconstruct the defect.
Department of Plastic Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
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G
Biswas
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NK
Khandelwal
N K
NK
Venkatramu
P S
PS
Chari
D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000601:surgery; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000637:transplantation*; D013249:Sternum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed