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Wheeling Park Swimmer Mueller Overcoming Odds
News February 26, 2015 6545
Mueller has what's known as pectus excavatum, or the ribs and sternum are growing abnormally inward. This produces a caved-in or sunken appearance of the chest. It can either...
Cardiothoracic surgeon performs unusual surgery on elite athlete
News Updated February 17, 2015 7174
From the time he was about 8 years old, Shahab Maslehati had been well aware that his chest was sunken. It had become more pronounced in adolescence, a time...
Teenager, 17, dies after surgery to correct sunken hollow in her chest
News Updated February 17, 2015 7539
‘She was witty and bright and she had a lovely boyfriend and lots of friends." Very tragic story here (happened in 2012, but posted Sept 29,...
Operation to end misery of being born with a caved-in chest
News Updated February 17, 2015 13258
"Indeed, by Ben's early teens he had become a different boy, say his parents. 'The deformity became more noticeable as he grew, making him very self-conscious and meant he...
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