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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Pulmonary function before and after the Nuss procedure in adolescents with pectus excavatum: correlation with morphological subtypes

 

Symmetric type (n = 9)

Asymmetric type (n = 9)

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Male, n (%)

9 (100)

9 (100)

1

Age (y)

14.3 ± 1.6

14.2 ± 2.4

0.910

Weight (kg)

54.4 ± 11

54 ± 8.9

0.926

Height (m)

1.7 ± 0.1

1.7 ± 0.1

0.799

BMI (kg/m2)

18.6 ± 1.9

18.9 ± 2.2

0.781

  1. BMI = body-mass index.