Acquired chest wall deformities are rarely encountered. Most of them result from pathologic process within the thorax, chest wall disease, iatrogenic deformities or post-traumatic. We present a case of a huge axillary mass deforming the chest wall. Surgery treated a well-encapsulated lipoma. Six months postoperatively, the chest wall restored to normal shape with active respiratory physiotherap...

A 6-year-old girl with Poland syndrome was diagnosed with loss of hard and soft tissue on her affected chest. She required chest reconstruction to protect her thorax and improve her developmental delay. We applied a titanium device used for children with funnel chest to her, resulting in good shape. By using this device, we avoided sacrificing healthy rib and muscle; she could save the tissue f...

Poland’s syndrome is a very rare type of chest deformation found in 1 : 32,000 – 1 : 52,500 live births [1, 2]. Its treatment most often involves the reconstruction of the mammary glands with the transposition of a pedicled muscle-skin flap using Marlex mesh [3, 4] or the repair of the chest’s bone structure. The coexistence of multiple developmental defects of the chest constituting this syndr...