PEDIATRICS Vol. 32 No. 2 August 1963, pp. 209-215
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PULMONARY FUNCTION IN PECTUS EXCAVATUM

George Polgar M.D.1 and C. Everett Koop M.D., Sc.D. (Med.)2

1 Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2 The Research Department and Surgical Clinic of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Pulmonary function studies were essentially normal in 12 children with pectus excavatum. The deviations from the predicted values were slight, inconsistent, and had no correlation with the degree of the deformity. These findings present no basis for a physiological indication for corrective surgery of funnel chest. Predictions cannot be made concerning the ability of the patient with pectus excavatum to withstand acute or chronic pulmonary disease in later life. Prolonged follow-up studies on a group of patients such as this, as well as on a post-operative group, would seem to be indicated.

Submitted on November 9, 1962
Accepted on December 4, 1962




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