Main description:

This book with accompanying videos focuses on pectus excavatum correction using custom-made silicone implants. It discusses patient evaluation, the minimally invasive procedure and follow-up care. It also describes in detail, and in a way that is comprehensible for practicing clinicians, the procedure for creating silicone implants using a scanner (computer-aided design). Further, the book presents the possibility of using fat grafting to correct this congenital deformity and highlights secondary surgical procedures and complications (e.g. infections).
Correcting pectus excavatum using a computer-aided design silicone implant is a simple and reliable technique that yields high-quality, aesthetic results. In the medium term, the approach may render invasive techniques obsolete, however, these operations remain risky.

Contents:

Etiopathogeny, Genetic, Quality of Life, and associated Syndroms.- Pulmonary function testing in Pectus.- Radiologic Anatomy and New Classification (Haller Index and Volume relations).- Scanner and Computer aided design.- Plaster modelling and 3D prototypes.- Manufacturing, casting, and sterilisation.- Custom made Implants techniques with CAD, hospitalisation and follow-up.- Breasts and Pectus excavatum.- Filling method with Fat graft technique.- Thoracic surgical correction of pectus excavatum: minmal and open approach.- Secondary surgical procedure.- Complications and Hazards.- Information sheet for patients and surgeons for custom made Implants.- Legislations and standards for custom amde implants in Europe: A Review.