[...]... nowadays Increasingly minor deformities are re- A H Schwabegger (ed.), Congenital Thoracic Wall Deformities © Springer-Verlag/Wien 2011 quested to be corrected as rather aesthetic interventions Since the publication of Donald Nuss about the success of the minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE) in 1998 the demand for correction of all sorts of thoracic wall deformities boomed almost all... as alternative, even non-surgical interventions to provide with sufficient information for physicians in advance or during first consultations of patients afflicted with such congenital thoracic wall deformities Openmirrors.com Deformities of the anterior thoracic wall 2.1 Functional anatomy of the thoracic cage Bernhard Moriggl 2.1.1 Introduction The individual shape of the thoracic cage in both men... oligodactyly Van Allen-Myhre – ectopia cordis; split hand/foot; skin defects Yunis-Varon – cleidocranial dysostosis plus Amniotic band syndrome Coffin-Lowry syndrome Congenital hypothyreoidism PHACE syndrome OMIM Location X-linked, sporadic 313850 Xq2 5-2 6.1 AR 211750 3q13 9q22 AR 220200 X-linked X-linked AR AR 30560 309605 AR AR, AD Xp22, 9q3 2-3 4 Xq21 267000 601612 119100 140850 AR AR AR X-linked AR, AD 216340... dorsi-flap Anton H Schwabegger 10.3.1 Introduction 10.3.2 Surgical technique 10.3.3 Harvesting of the LDM-flap and preparation of the donor side 10.3.4 Discussion 247 247 248 251 254 257 257 257 258 259 260 262 262 263 264 265 11 Surgery of other congenital anomalies of the anterior thoracic wall 11.1 Isolated rib deformities Anton H Schwabegger. .. syndrome, Williams-Beuren syndrome (OMIM 194050), Aarskog syndrome (OMIM 305400), Cardio- 20 2.2 Genetics of chest wall deformities Fig 3 Female patient with Noonan syndrome and dextrocardia The former scoliosis of the vertebral column is repositioned by internal stabilization She also underwent closure of open ductus Botalli and reconstruction of congenital abdominal wall dysplasia Fig 1 A 13-year-old girl... area of the mid-portion of the ventral pericardium, thus being an essential part of the anterior mediastinum 2.2 Genetics of chest wall deformities Dieter Kotzot Chest wall deformities are observed as a single anomaly or as a symptom of various monogenic syndromes, numeric and structural chromosome aberrations, genetic associations, and disruption sequences (Tables 1–3) For chest wall deformities as... funnel chest deformity Anton H Schwabegger 154 6.6.2 Lipofilling for funnel chest and similar or adjacent anterior thoracic wall deformities Monika Mattesich, Anton H Schwabegger 159 6.6.3 Local flaps Anton H Schwabegger 165 6.6.4 Microvascular flaps Christoph Papp, Wolfgang Michlits 169 6.6.5 Free microvascular sternum turnover flap Anton H Schwabegger, Milomir Ninkovic ... Rabensteiner 303 13 Actual technical improvements, future aspects 13.1 Thoracic wall deformities: 3-D scanning and computerized remodeling Laszlo Kovacs, Maximilian Eder, Christian Brossmann, Anton H Schwabegger 13.1.1 Background 13.1.2 3-D quantification of the body surface geometry 13.1.3 Computer-aided surgical planning 13.1.4 Clinical application 13.1.5... Orphanet: http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php POSSUM: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, AustraliaWBDD: London Medical Databases Ltd, London, UK 2.3 Classification/definition/description of typical and rare deformities Barbara Del Frari, Anton H Schwabegger Congenital or developmental deformities of the anterior chest wall do not primarily result... sometimes such a stem will provide the two vessels above and below a single rib (that is for two adjacent ICSs) Uninflu- 12 2.1 Functional anatomy of the thoracic cage Fig 14 Detail of cross section of anterior thoracic wall and anterior mediastinum (approximately mid-portion) at the level of seventh thoracic vertebra; seen from inferior PM pectoralis major muscle; BS body of sternum; IV costal cartilage of .