OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not patients with pectus excavatum (PE) exhibit costal cartilage overgrowth compared to normal subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS The computed tomography acquisitions of 32 patients with PE and 35 normal controls were analyzed. On axial images the length of the 4th-7th costal cartilages was measured to calculate the Haller index. Th...

Autogenous cartilage has generally been considered the gold standard grafting material in reconstructive septorhinoplasty for volume filling and structural support. in the restructuring of the nasal skeleton, autogenous cartilage can be harvested from the nasal septum, the auricle or the rib, but costal cartilage is considered the best graft material in patients requiring major reconstruction. ...

A Summary. The cardiac sign in carcinoma is a remarkable diminution of the area of cardiac dulness in the recumbent posture as determined by digital percussion. In that posture the dulness, in the normal adult, begins above about the third costal cartilage, reaches rightwards as nearly as possible to the mid-sternal line, and measures across about 3 to 3|inches at the level of the fifth costal ...

Mineralization and ossification in the human costal cartilages were studied radiologically. The aim of our study was to evaluate differences between males and females with respect to patterns of costal cartilage calcification and also with respect to ageing. Material for this study consists of 1044 chest and abdominal radiograms of the Czech population from the Department of Radiology (537 male...

1. Agrawal KS, Bachhav M, Shrotriya R. Namaste (counterbalancing) technique: Overcoming warping in costal cartilage. Indian J Plast Surg 2015;48:123-8. 2. Kim DW, Shah AR, Toriumi DM. Concentric and eccentric carved costal cartilage: A comparison of warping. Arch Facial Plast Surg 2006;8:42-6. 3. Agrawal K, Shrotriya R, Bachhav M. Diced cartilage under perichondrial carpet with reinforcement (D...

given the difficulties in accessing articular cartilage as a source of chondrocytes to be used in fabricating cartilage constructs, alternative sources are required. the present study examined chondrocytes from costal cartilage for their suitability in cartilage tissue engineering. chondrocytes isolated from rat knee and rib hyaline cartilage were separately mixed with alginate and placed in a ...

Galway, Ireland Tissue Engineered Cartilage Patches for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction James E. Dennis, David Gilpin, Mark Weidenbecher, Corresponding Author: [email protected] Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA Introduction Currently, the treatment for tracheal stenosis in infants is ...