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Clinical features

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The features of pectus excavatum vary widely:

  • features may be very mild and barely noticeable deformity to one in which there may be severe cardiac and respiratory insufficiency
  • a sharp posterior concavity in the body of the sternum usually deepest just above the xiphoid process and extending to the sternomanubrial junction
  • the sternum may be depressed close to the vertebral column
  • heart often displaced to the left
  • extent of cardiac depression is visible on CT scan

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