Operation of Wenlin chest

Abstract

Wenlin chest is a rare thoracic deformity, which is characterized by protrusive upper chest wall and depressed lower middle chest wall, and the root cause of the deformty is the thickening and deformation of sternum. Because the sternum is too hard, the normal sandwich technique cannot correct this deformity. We have made a special name for this deformity and designed operations for it. We performed pre-shaping on the sternum at first, and then implemented Wenlin procedure and Wang procedure for correction and achieved satisfactory results. The operation of a 28-year-old Wenlin chest patient was reported in this article.

Reoperation after failure of Nuss procedure on severe Wenlin chest

“…Wenlin chest is a rare congenital thoracic deformity [1,2] . Because one of its main lesions is the protrusion on the chest wall, it has been regarded as a kind of pectus carinatum in early years [3] .…”

“…Our findings are significantly different from those of other authors. In order to facilitate our own clinical work, we made a special name for this deformity, namely Wenlin chest [1,2] . On this basis, we also made a special design for the operation of it, and achieved satisfactory results.…”

“…Wenlin chest is a rare thoracic deformity named by us [1,2] . It is easy to be misdiagnosed as pectus carinatum or pectus excavatum due to the presence of both protrusion and depression on the anterior chest wall.…”

Minimally invasive surgical treatment for severe wenlin chest

“…Wenlin chest is a rare and special thoracic deformity, which is characterized by a protrusion on the anterior chest wall and a depression on the lower half in the middle [1,2] . In essence, it is a complex deformity.…”

“…For a rare deformity, the appearance of all these names inevitably leads to cognitive confusion, which is not conducive to the diagnosis and treatment of this deformity. In our work, we have contacted many cases of such a deformity [7][8][9][10] , and we gave it a new name, Wenlin chest. In the past work, we have made a variety of designs for the operation of this deformity.…”