Chest Wall Deformities

Amulya Kumar Saxena is a Consultant Pediatric Surgeon at the Chelsea Children's Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. He graduated summa-cum-laude from the Medical University of Pecs, Hungary, and subsequently specialized in Pediatric Surgery at the Westfalische Wilhelms University Munster, Germany, later becoming Chief Consultant Pediatric Surgeon. He was later the Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Austria, during which he was also Head of the Experimental Fetal Surgery and the Tissue Engineering Unit. Amulya Saxena has been the recipient of various awards for his scientific contributions in Pediatric Surgery and associated Research. He has been an invited guest professor/lecturer at various departments of pediatric surgery across the world and is a member of various International and National Scientific societies. He is a regular contributor at international conferences and the author of more than 140 original articles in peer-reviewed journals.

GENERAL.- CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS .- HISTOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS .- ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS .- PECTUS EXCAVATUM Minimal access repair .- Thoracoscopic aspects .- The Ravitch Procedure .- Willital-Hegemann procedure Minimal cartilage resection technique Free sternum turnover flap procedure .- Pectus correction using Kirschner wires  .- Non-prosthetic surgical repairVacuum treatment .- Magnetic mini-mover procedure .- Macrolane .- Mesh repair procedure .- Metal-free open-repair procedure Nuss procedure in adult patients .- Recurrent pectus excavatum repair .- Free fat transplantation .- PECTUS CARINATUM.- Nonoperative management Dynamic compression system Radiographic markers Minimal invasive endoscopic repair .- Endoscopic Pectus Carinatum Repair Pectus carinatum repair  Reactive pectus carinatum in patients treated for pectus excavatum .- OTHER CHEST WALL DEFORMITIES .- PLIER procedure for complex chest wall deformities.- Chest Wall Repair in Poland's Syndrome Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy Sternal defects.