musculoskeletal tuberculosis accounts for 1-2% of all types of tuberculosis. tubercular abscess of the chest wall accounts for 1-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. herein, we report a case of tubercular abscess of the chest wall. the occurrence of caries rib and cold abscess of the chest wall with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis, and tubercular lympha-denitis of neck and medias...

Spine fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis frequently extend to all 3 columns, which can lead to displacement and deformity with severe instability. Cervical spine fractures occasionally cause severe kyphotic deformities, such as chin-on-chest deformities. In such cases, the patients typically exhibit a chronic progression of hyperkyphosis after the traumatic event. This article de...

Congenital herniation of the liver through chest wall associated with deformity is an extremely rare clinical observation. There are only a few reports intercostal Poland syndrome, which characterized by hypoplastic unilateral structures. We present case neonate mass drooping defect in left side diaphragmatic eventration. The patient demonstrated left-sided pectoralis musculature and ipsilatera...

Background: Thoracic deformity after costal cartilage harvesting is a poorly reported complication in current literature. Several authors reconstruct an ear using 3 or 4 costal cartilages. This method produces various chest wall deformities. There is no description of an analysis of thoracic deformity as a sequel in patients who underwent autologous auricular reconstruction based on a clinical ...

The place where the apex beat appears on the chest wall depends as much on the symmetry of the thorax as on the size of the heart. A change in the alignment of the spine, the posterior fulcrum of the thoracic cage, in the form of scoliosis, alters the position of the beat. Local deformity of the ribs which form the walls of the cage will do the same thing. Deformity of the sternum, the anterior...

BACKGROUND We describe here a very rare congenital deformity that involves the splitting of the right upper limb with the superior limb articulating with the shoulder joint, and the inferior limb laterally attached to the chest wall. MATERIAL AND METHODS The child with this rare split limb was treated by transferring the inferior limb on an islanded pedicle to the superior one while creating ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the medium-term results of 77 surgical corrections in patients with chest wall deformities, 53 (68.8%) with pectus excavatum and 24 with pectus carinatum, operated upon from 1985 to 1994. METHODS The mean age of the patients was 14.7 years (4-39 years) and 77% were younger than 15 years of age. There were 59 male (76.7%) and 18 female patients. Only four had a family his...