Question
My child, who is 19 months old, recently showed some protrusion of the sternum in front, which I didn’t pay much attention to at first because my child is quite fat. We thought it was just fat. The doctor said my child has a funnel-shaped pigeon chest and I don’t know how to treat it.
Answer
Hello, you need to check it out! [Treatment Measures] The treatment for pigeon chest requires surgical methods as well. One, the upper and lower vascular pedicle sternum rotation and funnel chest surgery are the same. Two, the non-pedicle sternum rotation is basically the same as funnel chest surgery, except that the pigeon chest bones are longer, with the third and fourth ribs and costal cartilages being the longest, and the fifth rib being shorter. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the depression of the chest ribs during surgery. The abnormalities of the chest vertebrae and costal cartilages are exposed through a midline or transverse incision. A section of rectus abdominis muscle is taken from the attachment point of the rectus abdominis muscle, turned downward, and the periosteum of the ribs is removed.