Ravikumar Mithun Sundararaaja, Palanisamy Vijayanand, Raman Karthik, Agarwal Ravi
Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, IND.
Cureus. 2019 May 13;11(5):e4653. doi: 10.7759/cureus.4653.
A sternal cleft is a chest wall malformation resulting from a failure of sternal fusion. It is a rare anomaly with an incidence of 2:100,000 live births representing less than a percent of all chest wall deformities. The aim of surgery is to provide bony protection over the mediastinal structures. We present a 27-day-old neonate with an upper partial sternal cleft for whom successful primary sternal closure was performed.
胸骨裂是一种由于胸骨融合失败导致的胸壁畸形。它是一种罕见的异常情况，发病率为每10万例活产中有2例，占所有胸壁畸形的比例不到1%。手术的目的是为纵隔结构提供骨性保护。我们报告了一名27天大的患有上部部分胸骨裂的新生儿，对其成功实施了一期胸骨闭合手术。
