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Pectus Carinatum (PC) or protrusion deformity of the chest wall accounts for 5 % of all chest wall deformities affecting 1 in 2500 live births (Ravitch, Congenital deformities of the chest wall and their operative correction. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1977). It is also know as pigeon chest. It can be unilateral, bilateral or mixed and there is predominance in males (Robicsek, Chest Surg Clin N Am 10(2):357–76, 2000).
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Kolvekar, S.K., Panagiotopoulos, N. (2016). Pectus Carinatum. In: Kolvekar, S., Pilegaard, H. (eds) Chest Wall Deformities and Corrective Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23968-2_5
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