THE EFFECT AND LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF STERNUM TURNOVER OPERATION IN CHILDREN[J]. Journal of Chongqing Medical University, 1992,(4):285-287. DOI: 10.13406/j.cnki.cyxb.1992.04.009.
This paper reports 30 pectus excavatum cases that were trealed with sternum turnover operation. 27 were male and 3 female. The follow-ups were carried out in 29 cases for 2-13 years. 13 cases of them were less than 3 gears old. The long-term results of 24 patients who received this operation were very satisfactory
None had surgical complications. The author thinks
therefore
this operation is also suitable to infants whose ages range from 1 to 3 years