Abstract
Bauhinus produced the cardinal definition of a funnel-form chest in the sixteenth century. He assessed the clinical features of pectus excavatum in a patient suffering with pulmonary compression, dyspnea (shortness of breath) and paroxysmal cough; the symptoms appraised by Bauhinus aided the embellishment of his definition of the deformation. The Nuss procedure to correct the deformity relies on two interventions: the first, to insert the steel bar through bilateral anterior-axillary thoracic incisions and the second, to remove the bar after 3 years.
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Simon, N.L., Kolvekar, T., Kolvekar, S.K. (2016). History. In: Kolvekar, S., Pilegaard, H. (eds) Chest Wall Deformities and Corrective Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23968-2_3
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