Olsen K D, Kern E B, O'Connell E J
Laryngoscope. 1980 May;90(5 Pt 1):832-7.
A six-year-old child with obstruction of the upper airway and a pectus excavatum defect ("funnel chest") is presented. Correction of the funnel-chest deformity was observed four years after the performance of a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy to relieve the obstruction of the upper airway. The relationship between chronic upper-airway obstruction and a pectus excavatum deformity is discussed, and the reversibility of such a deformity is documented.
