AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SECTION ON ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Several errors appeared in the summary of the paper by Dr. Charles W. Lester, Pigeon Breast, Funnel-Chest, and Other Congenital Deformities of the Anterior Chest Wall, presented at the June 1954 meeting of the American Medical Association, Section on Orthopedic Surgery. This summary was published in the Proceedings Section of the December 1954 issue of The Journal.

On page 1293 the meaning may be clarified if the sentence beginning on the next to the last line, last paragraph, is changed to read "If the growth of the pairs of ribs which attach to the mid-portion of the sternum exceeds that of the other ribs, there may occur buckling at the costochondral junctions of the ribs growing proportionately more rapidly and the central part of the sternum may be pushed forward ‘in an arc’".

To the sentence beginning on the last line of page 1293 and ending on the first line of the next page add "; the resulting protrusion will be oblique".

On page 1294, the meaning in the sentence beginning on the first line may be better expressed if the sentence is changed to read "If disproportionate growth occurs in the ribs on one side while the ribs on the opposite side grow normally, the latter may fix the sternum and the buckling of the overgrowing ribs may cause protrusion of costochondral junctions either at the sternum or in the costal arch of the same side".

The next sentence will better convey the author's meaning if the subject is changed from "Patients with the oblique type of deformity" to "Patients having protrusion deformities".

On page 1294, paragraph 3, line 3, to the sentence ending on this line add: ", leaving the posterior cortex of the sternum intact".

On page 1294, paragraph 3, the sentence beginning on line 3 should be changed to read: "The xiphoid is detached from the sternum and removed; the beds of the resected sixth and seventh costal cartilages with the intervening interchondral ligaments are cut from their attachment to the sternum, and the substernal ligament ^a divided."

On page 1294, paragraph 3, next to the last line, the author's name is Dailey.

On page 1294, paragraph 5, line 1, the phrase, "as originally described by Brown," should have been omitted. In the same paragraph, line 2, the word "second" should have been written "seventh".

a. Brown, A. L.: Pectus Excavatum (Funnel Chest). Anatomic Basis; Surgical Treatment of the Incipient Stage in Infancy; and Correction of the Deformity in the Fully Developed Stage. J. Thoracic Surg., 9: 164-184, 1939.

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