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Chest wall deformities can be acquired after trauma to the chest as well as after intervention in the thorax using open procedures that violate the bony structures of the thoracic wall altering their growth pattern. This chapter explains the embryological as well as the development of the thoracic cage and interventions which can alter the proportional chest wall growth. Explanations have been provided as to how the bone alterations differ from the cartilage alteration in their manifestation of chest wall deformities.
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Wegmann, H., Saxena, A.K. (2017). Post-traumatic and Post-surgical Chest Wall Deformities (Acquired Chest Wall Deformities). In: Saxena, A. (eds) Chest Wall Deformities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53088-7_57
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