Sandwich Technique

Sandwich surgeries in pectus deformities can be successfully performed in mixed type deformities where pectus carinatum and pectus excavatum deformities are found together. In the surgery to be performed, the dislocated chest is collapsed by first placing the carinatum bar (Abramson bar). In the second stage, one or two Nuss bars are placed on the collapsed parts of the chest wall with the Nuss surgery technique. We have successfully performed sandwich surgery on 55 patients (53 males and 2 females) with an average age of 18.9 years (the youngest is 14 and the oldest is 27).