https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/pf-04957325.h
PURPOSE Recently, several investigators reported that costal cartilage does not overgrow in pectus excavatum (PE). We wished to clarify whether costochondral length is longer in PE than the normal thorax and we tried to clarify the change of the shape of precordial concavity according to the growth in PE. METHODS We evaluated 243 CT axial images of patients with PE and 246 CT axial images of patients without thoracic deformity. We divided the fifth costal cartilage into several lengths. We considered each part to be a straight line