Congenital sternal cleft is a rare chest wall malformation. Because of the flexibility of the chest in infants, surgical repair should be performed by primary closure in the neonatal period. In adolescents and adults, different techniques have been suggested to overcome the lack of sternal bone tissue. We describe a very rare case of an 18-year-old woman with a complete bifid sternum associated with pectus excavatum for whom a satisfactory cosmetic and functional result was obtained by adequate surgical planning, which entailed a combination of two standardized surgical techniques.

Sternal cleft and pectus excavatum: A combined approach for the correction of a complex anterior chest wall malformation in a teenager / Tocchioni, Francesca; Ghionzoli, Marco; Lo Piccolo, Roberto; Deaconu, Diana E.; Facchini, Flavio; Milanez De Campos, Jose R.; Messineo, Antonio. - In: ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY. - ISSN 0003-4975. - ELETTRONICO. - 99:(2015), pp. e131-e135. [10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.050]

Sternal cleft and pectus excavatum: A combined approach for the correction of a complex anterior chest wall malformation in a teenager

GHIONZOLI, MARCO;FACCHINI, FLAVIO;MESSINEO, ANTONIO
2015

Abstract

Congenital sternal cleft is a rare chest wall malformation. Because of the flexibility of the chest in infants, surgical repair should be performed by primary closure in the neonatal period. In adolescents and adults, different techniques have been suggested to overcome the lack of sternal bone tissue. We describe a very rare case of an 18-year-old woman with a complete bifid sternum associated with pectus excavatum for whom a satisfactory cosmetic and functional result was obtained by adequate surgical planning, which entailed a combination of two standardized surgical techniques.
2015
99
e131
e135
Tocchioni, Francesca; Ghionzoli, Marco; Lo Piccolo, Roberto; Deaconu, Diana E.; Facchini, Flavio; Milanez De Campos, Jose R.; Messineo, Antonio...espandi
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