Pediatric surgeons at Children’s Mercy 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.
Click on the links below to read articles about minimally invasive surgical techniques and watch a video of pectus excavatum repair. You need Windows Media 7.1 for these links to work.
Pectus Excavatum Video
Minimally Invasive Bar Repair for ‘Redo’ Correction of Pectus Excavatum
Minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum