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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 exact mechanism involved in this abnormal bone and cartilage overgrowth is not known, and, to date, no genetic defect is known that is directly responsible for the development of ...

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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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