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11727046

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-29
pubmed:abstractText
Forty-seven children with funnel chest (FC) who underwent sternal elevation and 210 normal children were examined to determine the indications for surgical treatment using the vertebral index (VI) and frontosagittal index (FSI). In normal children VI gradually increased and FSI gradually decreased with age. Both indices changed significantly at 3 years of age. Although the VI of FC patients decreased significantly from 33.8 +/- 7.6 (n=40) to 24.4 +/- 3.9 (n=38) postoperatively (P < 0.0001), it was significantly larger than that of normal children over 3 years of age (20.2 +/- 2.2, n=150) (P < 0.0001), and although the FSI of FC patients increased significantly from 22.0 +/- 7.0 (n=40) to 34.5 +/- 6.5 (n=38) postoperatively (P < 0.0001), it was significantly smaller than that of normal children over 3 years of age (41.1 +/- 4.0, n=150) (P < 0.0001). Since many patients had a thin and flat chest despite excellent correction, their postoperative indices were not normal. There was a correlation between VI and FSI in normal children and a high degree of correlation between VI and FSI both before and after operation in FC patients. We conclude that a VI of more than 27 and/or a FSI of less than 29 are indications for surgical treatment based on the mean VI + 3SD and FSI - 3SD of normal children over 3 years of age. These values are almost equal to the mean VI - SD and FSI + SD of patients with physical, cosmetic, and/or psychological disturbances. However, it is not necessary to measure both indices simultaneously. Postoperative VI and FSI did not always reflect the degree of chest-wall depression in FC patients because of their flat chests.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0179-0358
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
591-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Indications for surgical treatment of funnel chest by chest radiograph.
pubmed:affiliation
Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article