Is chest outstanding apparently chicken breast

summary

If the child's chest is obviously prominent, you need to doubt whether it is chicken breast, but if you want to make a diagnosis, you must go to the hospital for further examination. Because the child's chest is obviously prominent, it may be chicken breast, it may also be some space occupying lesions. Can take the child to the hospital to do X-ray examination and CT scan, so as to accurately determine whether there is chicken breast phenomenon. Generally speaking, children's chicken breast can be divided into three types, one is ship type, the other is spherical pigeon breast, and the other is unilateral chicken breast. Let's take a look at the following.

Is chest outstanding apparently chicken breast

First: if the child belongs to the boat chest, then through X-ray examination or CT scanning, we can find that the sternum is elongated, and the sternum will protrude forward a lot, at the same time, the bilateral lower costal cartilage will have obvious subsidence, which looks like the keel of a boat.

Second: in chicken breast, there are some children with unilateral breast, which is also called asymmetric breast. This kind of chicken breast through X-ray or CT examination can find that one side of the chest wall will be obvious protrusion, and sometimes the opposite side of the chest wall will appear offline, the child's costal cartilage will have deformity.

Third: of course, some children's chicken breast may be a spherical pigeon breast. If this kind of chicken breast occurs, there will be protrusion at the sternum stalk or the connecting part of sternum body, and the costal cartilage adjacent to sternum body or sternum stalk will also appear protrusion, and the sternum angle may be reduced.

matters needing attention

In chicken breast, there is a situation called funnel chest. The probability of this situation is very low, the symptoms are very mild, and sometimes there is no need for treatment. So whether the child has chicken breast must go to the hospital to do a detailed examination to judge.