THORAX PLASTIC SURGERY USING TITANIUM IMPLANTS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
This article reflects stages of treatment of funnel chest in children and adolescents from 1990 to 2015. The work provides analysis of surgical treatment of 92 patients, including 17 children treated by G.A. Bairov’s method and 75 patients were operated by Nuss-Vinogradov method. There were also presented main stages of new technique, which supplement the “classical” kind of surgical intervention. It was noted that using titanium plates to correct funnel chest in children and adolescents is the method of choice and brings good clinical results.