Fig. 1From: Repair of pectus excavatum in a patient with an Eloesser thoracostomy window: sequential extrapleural Nuss procedure and modified Ravitch procedureImages before and after the extrapleural Nuss procedure. A Initial chest computed tomography shows severe chest wall depression, compression of the inferior vena cava, spinal scoliosis, dextrocardia, and chronic left empyema with the Eloesser window. B A simple chest x-ray at discharge shows the extrapleural Nuss procedure with the sandwich technique. The patient had a tracheostomy for ventilator support. C A one-month postoperative chest computerized-tomography reveals a marked relief of compression on the heart and inferior vena cava by the depressed chest wall (IVC: inferior vena cava, Ao: descending aorta, arrow: most depressed point)Back to article page