Prevalence of pectus excavatum in an adult population-based cohort estimated from radiographic indices of chest wall shape

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 5; p. e0232575
• Main Authors: Biavati, Mikaela, Kozlitina, Julia, Alder, Adam C., Foglia, Robert, McColl, Roderick W., Peshock, Ronald M., Kelly, Robert E., Kim Garcia, Christine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.05.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescents; Adults; Biology and Life Sciences; Cartilage; CAT scans; Chest; Computed tomography; Defects; Demographic aspects; Diagnosis; Females; Funnel chest; Gender; Hospitals; Medicine and Health Sciences; Men; Minority & ethnic groups; Patients; Pediatrics; People and Places; Population; Population studies; Regression analysis; Research and Analysis Methods; Sex differences; Sternum; Surgery; Teenage boys; Thorax; Time; Tomography; United States; United States > US; Virginia

Pectus excavatum is the most common chest wall skeletal deformity. Although commonly evaluated in adolescence, its prevalence in adults is unknown. Radiographic indices of chest wall shape were analyzed for participants of the first (n = 2687) and second (n = 1780) phases of the population-based Dal...