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Search String "funnel chest"[majr] 900+ articles Nov 2006

Diseases Database Entry aka Oral-facial-digital syndrome type 3 aka/or Orofaciodigital syndrome type 3 or Sugarman Syndrome A syndrome of eye abnormalities, lobulated hamartomatous tongue, dental abnormalities, bifid uvula, postaxial hexadactyly, pectus excavatum, short sternum, kyphosis, mental retardation, and ceaseless ("see-saw") winking of the eyelids occurring in one of the two sisters in the original report.

Background: Pectus excavatum, also known as sunken or funnel chest, is a congenital chest wall deformity in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally, producing a concave, or caved-in, appearance to the anterior chest wall. Image 1 illustrates the typical appearance of this deformity in a 16-year-old boy. The...

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Search string ("funnel chest"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "funnel chest"[MeSH Terms] OR pectus excavatum[Text Word] URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%28%22funnel%20chest%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22funnel%20chest%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20pectus%20excavatum%5BText%20Word%5D 1519 articles Nov 2006

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