Reoperation after failure of Nuss procedure on Wenlin chest with Poland syndrome

Abstract

Wenlin chest is a rare congenital thoracic deformity, which may be combined with other deformities. Because its main lesions are the protrusion and depression of the anterior chest wall, if only one kind of lesions is treated, the deformity will not be corrected completely, and the operation may fail. We met a 20-year-old female patient with Wenlin chest and Poland syndrome who underwent Nuss procedure two years before. The operation was unsuccessful, and the patient still had serious deformity. We performed the reoperation for her, and satisfactory results were obtained.