People who underwent gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgeries as adults have virtually no regrets years later and overwhelmingly high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the ...

Thoracic surgery — the treatment of diseases of the lungs, airways and chest — has changed more in the last 30 years than in the century before it. For patients, that evolution now means smaller ...

For nearly two months, 43-year-old Rahul (name changed) lived with a strange, persistent discomfort in his chest. It wasn’t ...

A pleurectomy is a surgical procedure to remove part or all of the pleura, a membrane that lines the lungs and chest cavity. The procedure treats empyema — an infection of the pleural cavity — and ...

There are two main types of chest wall deformity: pectus carinatum, or pigeon chest, and pectus excavatum, or funnel chest. The former pushes out; the latter sinks in. Though there can be a genetic ...

Pectus excavatum is a type of chest wall deformity. It causes your chest to look sunken or indented. This sunken shape is why people sometimes call the condition funnel chest. Pectus excavatum causes ...

Mangaluru doctors performed a complex surgery to save an 11-year-old girl from Kasargod with a life-threatening chest injury ...