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Tim Melville will often scan a crowd and find a kid that is just like he was. It’s a small thing and he can see it in their posture...
January 08, 2016
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And now the 6-foot-4 Taylor has become a stud. He said the surgeon had advised him to do weight training to build up his chest muscles. A stronger chest...
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January 07, 2016
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The Specialist: An assistant professor of thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai, Dr. Andrew Kaufman specializes in treating disorders of the chest wall — including pectus excavatum...
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November 29, 2015
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Despite suffering from pectus excavatum, a condition in which a person's breastbone is sunken into his chest, 10-year-old Carsen Blower continues doing what he loves most. He plays basketball. ...
November 27, 2015
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A kitten born with a rare chest deformity now needs an urgent operation to save her life. Precious the kitten was born at the Margaret Green...
November 03, 2015
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After undergoing surgery to have two steel bars inserted into her chest during the summer between her sophomore and junior year, Rebecca Uhl agreed with two rules from her...
October 19, 2015
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The TangDu Hospital in Xi’an, China is no stranger to 3D printing technology, as they have successfully performed several surgeries involving 3D printed implants. Not only have they incorporated...
October 13, 2015
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Even as a kid, Aaron Hollifield noticed he always had trouble exercising and playing sports. "At first, I thought it was just because I was lazy,"...
First ever pectus excavatum correction surgery with 3D printed titanium plate completed in China
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September 15, 2015
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"...doctors in the TangDu Hospital of the fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an city, Shaanxi province, China, have recently and successfully completed a complex pectus excavatum procedure in which...
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I will never forget when my hospital door opened and in walked a Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeon and his team. I was confused. Why was he here? I had just...
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