Pediatric surgeons at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City specialize in minimally invasive surgery to repair pectus excavatum, a congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally.
Pectus excavatum (sunken chest, funnel chest) is the most common abnormality of the chest in children.
Pectus carinatum (PC) is a common pediatric condition characterized by an abnormal overgrowth of the rib cartilages.
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