Recent Refinements in Technique for Correction of Pectus Excavatum

Surgical correction of pectus excavatum at present can be roughly classified into the three categories of：silicone implant correction, sternal turnover, and sternal elevation. And in recent years, sternal elevation has become the method of choice in most cases. We too have been employing a minimally invasive sternal elevation procedure developed as a modification of Ravitch's technique, with which we have been able to obtain stable results