Orthopaedic-surgical treatment of children with funnel deformity of the chest and scoliosis

Abstract

We analyze the treatment of 19 patients aged 5 to 17 years with funnel chest and scoliosis. Combination of the spine and chest severe pathology is specific for the children with system hereditary diseases and seems to have a single root. The combination of the spine and chest deformity mutually aggravates and complicates their surgical correction. We think that, when treating the children with scoliosis and FDC, it is preferable on the first stage to intervene on the spine and, whereas in cases of obvious decrease of the external respiration function parameters as well as in the children under pubertal age and with a relatively light spinal deformity, to perform correction of the chest deformity.