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Breasts and Pectus Excavatum

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Pectus Excavatum and Poland Syndrome Surgery

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Pectus excavatum, or “funnel chest,” is the most common congenital malformation of the thorax. In the literature, the sex ratio is mostly 5 men to 1 woman; in our 25-year experience of 600 cases, it was 3 men to 2 women owing to the quality of our plastic surgeon and the specific recruitment of breast anomalies due partly or totally to pectus excavatum.

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  1. Plastic Surgery Department, Rangueil Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France

    Jean-Pierre Chavoin, Benoit Chaput & Jean-Louis Grolleau

  2. St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Chelmsford, UK

    Mary Morgan

  3. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, Amiens Picardie University Hospital, Amiens, France

    Richard Vaucher

  4. AnatomikModeling, Amphipolis Business Centre, Toulouse, France

    Benjamin Moreno

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Chavoin, JP., Morgan, M., Vaucher, R., Moreno, B., Chaput, B., Grolleau, JL. (2019). Breasts and Pectus Excavatum. In: Chavoin, JP. (eds) Pectus Excavatum and Poland Syndrome Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05108-2_5

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